Includes bibliographical references (p. 485-494) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : rhetoric and reform in the Progressive Era / J. Michael Hogan -- The second oratorical renaissance / Robert Alexander Kraig -- Preaching morality in modern America : Theodore Roosevelt's rhetorical progressivism / Leroy G. Dorsey -- Science, public policy, and the "spirit of the people" : the rhetoric of progressive conservation / Christine Oravec -- The progressive reform of journalism : the rise of professionalism in the press / Douglas Birkhead -- Justice Holmes's rhetoric and the progressive path of the law / James Arnt Aune -- William Jennings Bryan : the Jeffersonian liberal as progressive / Malcom O. Sillars -- Eugene Debs and American class / James Darsey -- W.E.B. du Bois, double-consciousness, and Pan-Africanism in the Progressive Era / Robert E. Terrill and Eric King Watts -- Rhetoric and race in the Progressive Era : imperialism, reform, and the Ku Klux Klan / Brian R. McGee -- Woman suffrage in the Progressive Era : a coming of age / Jennifer L. Borda -- From Hull House to The Hague : Jane Addams's rhetoric of pacificism, 1898-1917 / Carl R. Burgchardt -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, progressivism, and feminism, 1890-1935 / Judith A. Allen -- Conclusion : memories and legacies of the Progressive Era / J. Michael Hogan.
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