Jefferson's Call for Nationhood
The First Inaugural Address
978-1-58544-251-5 Cloth
5.5 x 8.5 x 0 in
176 pp. Frontis.
Pub Date: 06/20/2003
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Curiously, this masterpiece—the full text of which is reproduced in this volume—has never received sustained analysis. Here, Stephen Howard Browne describes its origins, composition, meaning, and delivery.
His wellcrafted argument and accessible prose offer a model of analysis for rhetorical scholars and students and an added dimension to the history of the early republic and the understanding of American political thought.
Library of Presidential Rhetoric
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Published by Texas A&M University Press