Andrews, James Robertson,  1936- <br/><br/>
Reading rhetorical texts :  an introduction to criticism. / 
James R. Andrews, Michael C. Leff, Robert Terrill. 
 - Boston :  Houghton Mifflin,  1998. 
 - viii, 424 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 404-413) and index. 
<br/><br/>Contents: Part I: Critical foundations : The nature of criticism; an overview -- Constituents of the rhetorical act: context and audience -- Constituents of the rhetorical act; the speaker -- Constituents of the rhetorical act: the text -- Part II: Critical readings and commentary: Reading Abraham Lincoln's young men's lyceum address -- Reading W. E. B. Du Bois's "of Mr. Booker T. Washington and others" -- Part III: Alternative readings: Alternative readings of Richard Nixon's address on Vietnam -- Alternative readings of Jesse Jackson's "common ground and common sense" -- Part IV: Critical readings: sample studies: Critical reading of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "solitude of self" -- Critical reading of Abraham Lincoln's "cooper union address" -- Critical reading of Dwight D. Eisenhower's "atoms for peace" -- Critical reading of Mario Cuomo's "religious belief and public morality" -- Critical reading of John Dickinson's "letter from a farmer in Pennsylvania"  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0395731569 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97072438  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Speeches, addresses, etc., American--History and criticism.<br/>English language--Rhetoric.--United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS400  / .A84 1997 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>815/.009