Lincoln, Douglas and Slavery

ISBN: 9780226978765

出版社: Univ of Chicago Pr

出版年: 1993-6

页数: 324

定价: $ 33.90

装帧: Pap

内容简介

Winner of the Speech Communication's Winans-Wichelns Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address. Zarefsky examines the dynamics of the seven 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates, placing them in historical context and explaining the complicated issue of slavery in the territories, their focal point. He elucidates the candidates' arguments, analyzes their rhetorical strategies, and shows how public sentiment is transformed.