American Public Address and American Studies
A Bibliography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9448585 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Jeffery Auer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1957 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 217-217 |
| Publication date | 1957-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0678 • E-ISSN: 1080-6490 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2710745 |
| OpenAlex | W2318795682 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
PUBLIC DISCUSSION, debate, and persuasion have been characteristic of American society from its beginning; with one notable exception we have always settled controversial public issues by talking them out, not shooting them out. This passionate devotion to oratory as an instrument essential to the democratic process has been carefully noted by foreign observers from De Tocqueville and Bryce to Siegfried and Brogan. Our own literary, historical, and political scholars, however, have been more inclined to accept this tradition of public address than to analyze it. Only in recent decades has research by scholars in the field of speech so expanded as to put at the disposal of the teacher of American Studies a substantial body of literature on the history of American public address. The purpose of this classified bibliography is to offer some direction to those who would use this literature. I
American studies · Art · Bibliography · Humanities · Library science · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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