Description:
An examination of the powerful role human agency and rhetoric played in the founding of the nation
Brief description: Stephen Howard Browne is a professor of rhetorical studies in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Thomas Jefferson's Call for Nationhood: The First Inaugural Address, Angelina Grimke: Rhetoric, Identity, and the Radical Imagination, and Edmund Burke and the Discourse of Virtue. His work has been recognized by the National Communication Association's Diamond Anniversary Award and by Penn State's Class of 1933 Award for Distinction in the Humanities.
Review Quotes:
Stephen Howard Browne has assembled an expertly researched, meticulously detailed analysis, enhanced with notes and a bibliography. Highly recommended, especially for public and college library American History collections.
-- "Midwest Book Review"