American Political Rhetoric

Expanded to include the issues of gender, foreign policy, and the role of the judiciary, the new edition of this popular text provides introductory students with some of the best examples of American political rhetoric, from "The Declaration of Independence" to Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." In each chapter, different voices speak to a major theme in American political rhetoric. In addition to excerpts from pivotal Supreme Court cases, the text includes contributions from such diverse sources as The Federalist, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mario Cuomo, Robert Bork, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Vaclav Havel.