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Richard W. Leeman
African Americans have throughout American history turned to public speaking to enact or prevent change, and create community. The African American community has produced many notable and eloquent speakers and…
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Richard Leeman
This work also provides texts of representative speeches, a chronology of important speeches, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. The critical analysis points first to Frances Willard’s belief…
Richard Leeman analyzes the possible discursive responses to terrorism, prescribing democratic rhetoric as the most strategic counterterrorist response available.
This long-needed sourcebook assesses the unique styles and themes of notable African-American orators from the mid-19th century to the present-of 43 representative public speakers, from W.E.B.
Drawing upon nearly two hundred years of recorded African American oratory, The Will of a People, edited by Richard Leeman and Bernard Duffy, brings together in one unique volume some…
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Throughout much of American history, African Americans have been denied easy access to most of the traditional modes of effective reform, such as newspapers, legislative assemblies, unions and political parties…
The Teleological Discourse of Barack Obama, by Richard Leeman, provides an in-depth analysis of President Barack Obama’s speeches and writings to explain the power of the 44th president’s speaking. Highly…
Ideal for researchers and students in public speaking classes, American history classes, American politics classes, contemporary public address classes, and rhetorical theory/criticism classes.
Richard Leeman, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
Preaching after Easter examines the festal history and homiletics of Mid-Pentecost, Ascension, and Pentecost in the late-antique Mediterranean world. Methodologically rigorous studies of important sermons and preachers are complemented by…
Assessing the vulnerability of human populations to global environmental change, particularly climate change, is the main imperative of research and international action. This book discusses vulnerability as the central theme…
Assessing the vulnerability of human populations to global environmental change, particularly climate change, is now the main imperative of research and international action. However, much of the research into vulnerability…
