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Warriors' Words A Consideration of Language and Leadership
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By Keith Spencer Felton
ISBN: 0-275-94992-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-94992-1
224 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 7/30/1995
List Price: $112.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Awards:
  • Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 1996
Reviews:
  • This book about how an elevated use of language can magnify meaning and the persuasive impact of oratory is one of the most impressive works in the excellent "Praeger Series in Political Communication." Felton has given the reader ambergris and poetry. Others who write about rhetoric and communication would do well to read this book and learn from a true artist.
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    Choice
Description: Public discourse receives the concerted attention of linguists, political analysts, and others involved with language as a persuasive tool of communication. Yet sometimes overlooked is the fact that the impact of much modern political communication comes from aesthetic attributes. Effectiveness of delivery, poetry of expression, and emotional investment of the rhetorician give the audience a gauge for determining the speaker's sincerity. Warriors' Words examines leadership in the present century by scrutinizing the oral and written communications of 15 remarkable individuals at critical periods of their lives. Drawing on the words of Mohandas Gandhi, Clarence Darrow, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Joseph McCarthy, Adlai Stevenson, and Martin Luther King, among others, the author shows how language can dramatically transform listeners into agents of change. Moreover, the author analyzes how exemplary rhetoric can promote the development of motivation, the refinement of thought, and the binding together of peoples into positive forces for action. This study of the use and impact of words by significant social figures will be of interest to all students of rhetoric, politics, and history.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Prophets of the New Century
  • Assay: The Autumnal God--The Moral Crisis of Coming to Terms with a Postwar World, 1918-1938
  • Let There Be Light--The Genesis of a Social Conscience in the New Century (Jane Addams and Alice Hamilton)
  • Gandhi--Goat's Curds and Flax, and the Wisdom of the Ages
  • Clarence Darrow--Gold in the Land of Pyrite
  • Voices of the Second World War
  • Assay: Allies in the Cause of Righteousness
  • Men of Munich: The Outspoken, the Unheard, and the Man Who Weighed His Words (Neville Chamberlain)
  • Comes the Bully
  • Demagoguery as Final Solution: The Message of Tirade and Shriek (Adolf Hitler)
  • "In Their Righteous Might!"
  • Churchill--The Rt. Hon. Demosthenes
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt--Chats from the Fireside, Words from the Heart
  • Postwar Panic
  • Assay: Fear and Public Policy, and Voices of Rejoinder
  • The Goat-Song of Joseph Raymond McCarthy
  • Joseph N. Welch: Indignation in Triumph
  • Postwar Panic--A Postscript: Resolution and Retribution: The Rhetoric of Righteous Indignation
  • The Modern Epoch
  • Assay: Greatness Right There in the Living Room
  • Polity, Poetry and Caviat
  • Adlai Ewing Stevenson--Eloquence Offers Its Neck
  • Eisenhower--Lessons of D-Day, Warnings of Armageddon
  • John F. Kennedy--Let the Word Go Forth!: A Promise Plowed Under
  • King and Heir
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.--"This Pending Cosmic Elegy": Remembering a Cause's Superb Wordsmith
  • Rev. Jesse Jackson--The Pulpit and the Party Platform: A Voice of Caring in the Age of Anecdote
  • Warriors' Words: Afterthoughts on Leadership and Language
  • How Does History Handle the Rhetorician?
  • Some Reassessments
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 94-37392
LCC Class: PN4193
Dewey Class: 808.5
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