Daniel Webster and the Oratory of Civil Religion

From: Rhetoric & Public Affairs | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: Farrell, James M | Copyright information

Daniel Webster and the Oratory of Civil Religion. By Craig R. Smith. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005; pp 300. $47.50.

In a 1988 Quarterly Journal of Speech review, Stephen E. Lucas wrote of a "renaissance" of American public address, a rebirth of critical and historical scholarship in our discipline that had emerged in the wake of Edwin Black's Rhetorical Criticism: A Study in Method. That same year, at the first Public Address conference at the University of Wisconsin-Mad...

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