American Voices: An Encyclopedia Of Contemporary Orators

by Duffy, Bernard K.

• ISBN13: 9780313327902
• ISBN10: 0313327904
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-30
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group

Summary

Contemporary public speaking remains an important part of our national life and a substantial force in shaping current events. Many of America's most important moments and issues, such as wars, scandals, election campaigns, September 11, 2001, have been defined by oratory. Here, over 50 essays cover a substantial and interesting group of major American social, political, economic, and cultural figures from the 1960s to the present. Each entry explains the biographical forces that shaped a speaker and his or her rhetorical approach, focuses mainly on a discussion of the orator's major speeches within the context of historical events, and concludes with an appraisal of the speaker and his or her contribution to American political and social life. All entries incorporate chronologies of major speeches, bibliographies including primary sources, biographies, and critical studies and archival collections or Web sites appropriate for student research.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	xi
John D. Ashcroft	1	(7)
Harry Hellenbrand
Elizabeth M. Birch	8	(8)
Shawn Parry-Giles
Jason Edward Black
Patrick J. Buchanan	16	(6)
C. Brant Short
George Herbert Walker Bush	22	(9)
Craig R. Smith
George Walker Bush	31	(8)
Richard E. Vatz
Robert Carlyle Byrd	39	(7)
William D. Pederson
Sina K. Nazemi
Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Toure)	46	(7)
Robert E. Terrill
James Earl ``Jimmy'' Carter	53	(8)
Richard W. Leeman
Cesar Estrada Chavez	61	(9)
John C. Hammerback
Richard J. Jensen
Ward L. Churchill	70	(7)
Catherine H. Palczewski
Randall A. Lake
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton	77	(7)
Karrin Vasby Anderson
William Jefferson Clinton	84	(13)
Stephen A. Smith
Mario Matthew Cuomo	97	(7)
Mary Anne Trasciatti
Thomas Andrew Daschle	104	(7)
Troy A. Murphy
Angela Yvonne Davis	111	(8)
Cindy L. Griffin
Alan Dershowitz	119	(7)
R. John DeSanto
Daniel A. Grano
Elizabeth Hanford Dole	126	(7)
Nichola Gutgold
Marian Wright Edelman	133	(8)
Beth Waggenspack
Joycelyn Elders	141	(8)
Lorraine D. Jackson
Jerry Falwell	149	(6)
Paul Stob
Charles Conrad
Louis Abdul Farrakhan	155	(9)
Mark Lawrence McPhail
Gerald Rudolph Ford	164	(5)
Hermann G. Stelzner
Charles F. Ottinger
Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.	169	(8)
David Hoffman
William Franklin (Billy) Graham, Jr.	177	(10)
Hal W. Fulmer
Jennifer Young Abbott
Anita Faye Hill	187	(5)
Vanessa B. Beasley
Jesse Louis Jackson	192	(11)
David B. McLennan
Lyndon Baines Johnson	203	(8)
David Zarefsky
Sonia Johnson	211	(6)
Karen A. Foss
Barbara Charline Jordan	217	(7)
Carl R. Burgchardt
Edward Moore Kennedy	224	(7)
William D. Pederson
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	231	(7)
Theodore O. Windt, Jr.
Steven R. Goldzwig
Robert Francis Kennedy	238	(9)
Steven R. Goldzwig
Patricia A. Sullivan
John F. Kerry	247	(11)
Bernard K. Duffy
Marilyn DeLaure
Martin Luther King, Jr.	258	(12)
Marilyn DeLaure
Bernard K. Duffy
Larry Kramer	270	(7)
Charles E. Morris
Winona LaDuke	277	(8)
Dayle C. Hardy-Short
C. Brant Short
Audre Geraldine Lorde	285	(8)
Lester C. Olson
Wilma Mankiller	293	(6)
Christopher J. Skiles
Thurgood Marshall	299	(8)
Stephen A. Smith
William (Bill) Paul McCartney	307	(9)
Jennifer Young Abbott
Russell Means	316	(8)
Randall A. Lake
Catherine H. Palczewski
Harvey Bernard Milk	324	(6)
Karen A. Foss
Ralph Nader	330	(8)
Patricia A. Sullivan
Steven R. Goldzwig
Richard Milhous Nixon	338	(8)
Celeste M. Condit
Shannon Holland
Samuel Augustus Nunn	346	(7)
Edward M. Panetta
Sandra Day O'Connor	353	(7)
Janice Schuetz
H. Ross Perot	360	(8)
Valerie A. Endress
Mari Boor Tonn
Colin Luther Powell	368	(10)
Richard W. Leeman
Ronald Wilson Reagan	378	(12)
Ronald H. Carpenter
Windy Y. Lawrence
Janet Reno	390	(8)
Janice Schuetz
Donald H. Rumsfeld	398	(9)
Gordon Stables
Antonin Scalia	407	(7)
Catherine Langford
Al Sharpton	414	(8)
Daniel A. Grano
Gloria Steinem	422	(7)
Lisa Shawn Hogan
George Corley Wallace	429	(5)
Andrew King
Alyce Faye Wattleton	434	(6)
Lorraine D. Jackson
Christine Todd Whitman	440	(9)
Kristina Horn Sheeler
Malcolm X	449	(6)
Thomas W. Benson
Bibliographic Essay	455	(10)
Alan Razee
Index	465	(12)
About the Editors and Contributors	477