DOCSLIB.ORG

A Rhetorical Analysis of the 1952 Presidential Campaign

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
A Rhetorical Analysis of the 1952 Presidential Campaign A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE 1952 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SPEECHES OF ADLAI EWING STEVENSON DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By RAYMOND YEAGER, B.S. in Ed., A.M. ***** The Ohio State University 1956 Approved by! Adviser Department of Speech TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. INTRODUCTION ....................................... 1 A* P u r p o s e ............ ................ 3 B . Method ••...... ........... 3 C • Similar Studies .................... 9 D. Organization 10 II. THE SPEAKER AND HIS O R A T O R Y .......... 11 A. Training in eloquence 12 B. Entry into politics 16 C • Style 22 D. Delivery ........................ 33 III. SPEECH PREPARATION......................................... 39 A. Planning the campaign speeches •.».*...••••• 40 B. The research team ............................ 43 C. Writing techniques 49 D. Rehearsal and delivery ........... 50 IV. ANALYSIS OF "IMPROVING OUR LABOR L A W S " ....................... 52 A. Introduction 57 B. Discussion 59 C. Conclusion ........................ .......... 82 D. Appraisal ................ 83 V. ANALYSIS OF "FARM P O L I C Y " ................................. 8 8 A. Introduction ..••••.. ........ ........ 92 iii CHAPTER PAGE B. Discussion • ••••••••••«..*...•••• C. Conclusion 105 D. Appraisal . • ................. 106 VI. ANALYSIS OF "KOREA" ............................ 109 A. Introduction .................. ... 112 5. Discussion......... 113 C. Conclusion 127 D. Appraisal ................. 127 VII, ANALYSIS OF "SAFEGUARDS AGAINST COMN'fUNISM" ............... 132 A. Introduction ..................... 135 B. Discussion . 137 C. Conclusion........... 147 D. Appraisal 148 VIII. ANALYSIS OF "TIDELANDS OIL - FOREIGN TRADE"................ 151 A. Introduction ....... .............. 156 B. Discussion ...••••••••••••••..••• 157 C. Conclusion ......... 168 D. Appraisal ...... ...... 168 IX. INVENTION AND ARRANGEMENT ................................ 173 A. Invention ....•••• ..................... 173 B. Arrangement 196 X. THE EMERGENCE OF A STATESMAN.......................... 205 A. Basic philosophy . ........... 206 B. The development of his philosophy .......... 208 iv CHAPTER PAGE C• The Governor 211 D. The Presidential Candidate ••..... ... 212 E. The Statesman 219 XI. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS ................................... 228 A. Summary ....................... ....... 228 B. Conclusions 235 APPEND I X ....................................................... 243 A. "Improving our Labor Laws" ................ 243 B. "Farm Policy" 253 C. "Korea" • 264 D. "Safeguards Against Communism"............. 276 E. "Tidela'nds Oil - Foreign Trade" ......... 287 F. "Commencement Address" ................. 301 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY.............................................. 313 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION In 1952 a new figure appeared on the national political scene. Adlai Ewing Stevenson, the relatively obscure Governor of Illinois, was drafted by the Democratic party to be its nominee for President of the United States. In the three months following his nomination, Stevenson captured the attention of the nation, and indeed, the attention of the world, with his fresh approach to campaign speaking. Called ’’the best Democratic stump speaker to come out of Illinois since Stephen A. Douglas,"^ he conducted a campaign which was said to be directed Hto the mind rather than to the emotions.” His speeches brought superlative praise. "This is a magnificent man, a man so gifted it is something of a miracle that a convention of an American political party would have the sense to pick him."^ Although he was defeated at the polls, Stevenson garnered more votes than had ever been received by any winning candidate except Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936. He actually received three ^Time, XL (September 8 , 1952), p. 22. 2 Jane Krieger, "Stevenson as a Campaigner," The New York Times Magazine, October 19, 1952. p. 11. John Cort, "Stevenson, A New Approach," The Commonweal, LVI (August 15, 1952), p» 461. million more votes than did President Truman* the winner in the preceding campaign,^ Never before had a collection of the speeches of a political candidate made the best selling list. Yet Governor Stevenson, a losing candidate, found such popular acceptance of his printed speeches that more than one hundred thousand copies were sold in the United c States alone. The Major Speeches of Adlai E, Stevenson was on the New York Times non-fiction best seller list for weeks in 1953, and on May 31 of that year, it was fourth in popularity, A collection of Stevenson's speeches since 1952, What I Think, also made the New York Times non-fiction best seller list in April, 195 6 , What is there about Stevenson's speeches that would account for this phenomenal sale 1 To the student of political science, a genuine draft of a truly reluctant man to run for the office of President of the United States is worthy of investigation. To the student of public address, the sudden emergence of a speaker acclaimed for his skill by friend and foe alike is also worthy of investigation, ^U.S^. News and World Report, XXXIII (November 14, 1952), p, 18, 5 Letter from Jess Stein, editor, Random House, to Dr, Harold P, Harding, The Ohio State University dated March 5, 1956, ^New York Times Magazine, May 31, 1953, p, 8 , A. PURPOSE Aristotle first set forth the general principles which apply 7 to public address even today* The five divisions of rhetoric he postulates are invention, arrangement, style, memory and delivery* Invention is the discovery of the available means of persuasion in a given case* Arrangement is the ordering of those arguments* Style is the clothing of the arguments in language which will both aid understanding and please the ear* Memory includes the mental marshalling of material which the speaker may call upon at any time, and his method of mental preparation for the delivery of the speeoh, whether it be the memorization of an outline of his ideas in the speech or the entire manuscript. Delivery includes the utilization of both the voice and the body in the presentation of the speeoh. It is the purpose of this study to analyze the speeches of Adlai Stevenson in the light of these Aristotelian principles in order to determine the characteristics of his speaking. B. METHOD While all five of Aristotle*s divisions are employed in some measure in this study, invention receives detailed attention. Invention inoludes, among other things, the speaker’s discovery Lane Cooper, The Rhetoric of Aristotle (New York* D. Appleton-Century C0 x15)any, 1932), 259 pp. of ethical# logical and emotional proof. Ethical proof is that which helps establish the speaker’s character, intelligence and good will. The criteria for evaluating a speaker’s ethical proof Q have been suggested by Thonssen and Baird. In general, speaker focuses attention upon the probity of his character if he (1) associates either himself or his message with what is virtuous and elevated; (2) bestows, with propriety, tempered praise upon himself, his client, and his cause; (3) links the opponent or the opponent's cause with what is not virtuous; (4) removes or minimizes unfavorable impressions of himself or his cause previously established by his opponent; (5) relies upon authority derived from his personal experience; and (6) creates the impression of being completely sincere in his undertaking. With certain qualifications varying with the circumstances, it may be said that a speaker helps to establish the impression of sagacity if he (l) uses what is commonly called common sense; (2) acts with tact and moderation; (3) displays a sense of good taste; (4 ) reveals a broad familiarity with the interests of the day; and (5) shows through the way in which he handles speech materials that he is possessed of intellectual integrity and wisdom. Finally, a speaker's good will generally is revealed through his ability (l) to capture the proper balance between too muoh and too little praise of his audience; (2) to identify himself properly with the hearers and their problems; (3) to proceed with candor and straightforwardness; (4 ) to offer necessary rebukes with tact and consideration; (5) to offset any personal reasons he may have for giving the speech; and (6) to reveal, without guile or exhibitionism, his personable qualities as a messenger of the truth. A speaker’s emotional or pathetic proof includes all those materials and devices calculated to put the audience in a frame of mind suitable for the reception of the speaker's ideas. Among Lester Thonssen and A. Craig Baird, Speech Criticism (New York* Ronald Press, 1948), p. 387. such devioes are appeals to the desire for personal gain, reference to patriotic figures and ideals, and Biblical allusion. The emotions which may be appealed to, according to Aristotle, inolude anger, love, hatred, fear, pity, indignation, envy, emulation and contempt. The Aristotelian materials for logical proof are the enthymeme (a special rhetorical form of the syllogism) and examples. Modern rhetoricians have added statistics and testimony. The severity and strictness of the speaker1s argumentative development may be tested by analyzing these constituents of logical proof. The developmental plan for this study is based upon the method employed by Goodrich in his analysis of certain British ora- g tions. (l) A memoir of the speaker, revealing his early training in eloquence, the leading events of his public life, the
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Accountability and the Promise of Performance: in Search of The
    Accountability and the Promise of Performance: In Search of the Mechanisms Melvin J. Dubnick Professor of Political Science & Public Administration Rutgers University – Newark & Visiting Professor Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research Queen’s University, Belfast [email protected] Prepared for delivery at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 28-31, Philadelphia, PA & Conference of the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) September 3-6, 2003, Lisbon, Portugal ver: 8/29/03 Self-evident truths are frequently invoked when scholars and policymakers propose political reforms. We often hear: "It is obvious that X is true, therefore we need to do Y." The implication of this assertion is that common sense dictates our understanding of the problem and the solution. But is it really the case that X is true? And is Y really the best response? The fact that something is widely believed does not make it correct. (Ostrom 2000) Introduction: The Promise of Performance Among the pervasive notions characterizing contemporary public administration rhetoric and scholarship is the idea of accountability as the solution to a wide range of problems. According to proponents of accountability-centered reforms, enhanced accountability will (among other things) result in · greater transparency and openness in a world threatened by the powerful forces of hierarchy and bureaucratization (the promise of democracy) (O'Donnell 1998; Schedler, Diamond, and Plattner 1999); · access to impartial arenas where abuses of authority can be challenged and judged (the promise of justice) (Borneman 1997; Miller 1998; Ambos 2000); · pressures and oversight that will promote appropriate behavior on the part of public officials (the promise of ethical behavior) (Gray and Jenkins 1993; Anechiarico and Jacobs 1994; Morgan and Reynolds 1997; Dubnick 2003c); and · improvements in the quality of government services (the promise of performance).
    [Show full text]
  • Race, Governmentality, and the De-Colonial Politics of the Original Rainbow Coalition of Chicago
    University of Texas at El Paso DigitalCommons@UTEP Open Access Theses & Dissertations 2012-01-01 In The pirS it Of Liberation: Race, Governmentality, And The e-CD olonial Politics Of The Original Rainbow Coalition Of Chicago Antonio R. Lopez University of Texas at El Paso, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.utep.edu/open_etd Part of the American Studies Commons, and the History Commons Recommended Citation Lopez, Antonio R., "In The pS irit Of Liberation: Race, Governmentality, And The e-CD olonial Politics Of The Original Rainbow Coalition Of Chicago" (2012). Open Access Theses & Dissertations. 2127. https://digitalcommons.utep.edu/open_etd/2127 This is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UTEP. It has been accepted for inclusion in Open Access Theses & Dissertations by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UTEP. For more information, please contact [email protected]. IN THE SPIRIT OF LIBERATION: RACE, GOVERNMENTALITY, AND THE DE-COLONIAL POLITICS OF THE ORIGINAL RAINBOW COALITION OF CHICAGO ANTONIO R. LOPEZ Department of History APPROVED: Yolanda Chávez-Leyva, Ph.D., Chair Ernesto Chávez, Ph.D. Maceo Dailey, Ph.D. John Márquez, Ph.D. Benjamin C. Flores, Ph.D. Interim Dean of the Graduate School Copyright © by Antonio R. López 2012 IN THE SPIRIT OF LIBERATION: RACE, GOVERMENTALITY, AND THE DE-COLONIAL POLITICS OF THE ORIGINAL RAINBOW COALITION OF CHICAGO by ANTONIO R. LOPEZ, B.A., M.A. DISSERTATION Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at El Paso in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Department of History THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO August 2012 Acknowledgements As with all accomplishments that require great expenditures of time, labor, and resources, the completion of this dissertation was assisted by many individuals and institutions.
    [Show full text]
  • Malcolm X Declares West'doomed' Arrangements Muslim Accuses President, by MICHAEL H
    The Daily PRINCETONIAN Entered as Second Class Matter Vol. LXXXVII, No. 90 PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1963 Post Office, Princeton, N.J. Ten Cents Club Officers To Plan Social Malcolm X Declares West'Doomed' Arrangements Muslim Accuses President, By MICHAEL H. HUDNALL Scorns Washington March Party-sharing arrangements will By FRANK BURGESS be left to individual clubs, and the Minister Malcolm X of the Nation of Islam. ("Black Muslims") controversial "live entertainment" said here yesterday that in our time "God will destroy all other re- clause of the new Gentleman's ligions and the people who believe in them." Agreement will remain as it now iSpeaking at a coffee hour of the Near Eastern Program, the min- president stands, ICC Thomas E. ister of the New York Mosque declared that the followers of Elijah L. Singer '64 said yesterday. Muhammed "are not interested in civil rights." Singer stated after an Interclub "We make ourselves acceptable not to the white power structure Committee meeting that sharing but to the God who will destroy that power structure and all it stands parties under the experimental for," he stated. system will be "up to the discre- In an interview before the session he said that Governor Ross tion of the individual club's presi- Barnett's scheduled visit to Princeton October 1 does not affect him "any dent." more or less than if anyone else involved in current events is coming." The phrase "live entertainment" "There is no distinction between Barnett and Rockefeller" as far in the new 'Gentleman's Agreement as treatment of the Negro is concerned, he stated.
    [Show full text]
  • Hahn on Finlay, 'Growing American Rubber: Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security'
    H-Environment Hahn on Finlay, 'Growing American Rubber: Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security' Review published on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Mark R. Finlay. Growing American Rubber: Strategic Plants and the Politics of National Security. Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment Series. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2009. xiii + 317 pp. $49.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8135-4483-0. Reviewed by Barbara Hahn (Texas Tech University) Published on H-Environment (January, 2012) Commissioned by Dolly Jørgensen Rubber and Empire “We could recover from the blowing up of New York City and all the big cities of the eastern seaboard,” declared Harvey S. Firestone in 1926, “more quickly ... than we could recover from the loss of our rubber” (p. 63). Firestone, of course, relied on rubber for his tire empire; his explosive example was no less true for that. Rubber was a crucial input for most twentieth-century technologies: it contributed insulation for telegraph wires as well as tires for automobiles, bicycles, trucks, and airplanes. It also made rubber gloves and medical tubing, condoms, and tennis shoes. From hospitals to auto repair shops, rubber went into every industry--both Henry Ford and Thomas Edison counted it an input. In 1942, the United States consumed 60 percent of the world’s rubber but produced almost none; 97 percent was produced in the Pacific, in regions that had fallen to the Japanese after Pearl Harbor. The U.S. government rationed gasoline during World War II--primarily to protect the supplies of rubber that would otherwise be used in tires, by motorists.
    [Show full text]
  • Some Insights from a Comparison of the German and Us-American Synthetic Rubber Programs Before, During and After World War 11.1
    CAN POLITICIANS SPEED UP LONG-TERM TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE? SOME INSIGHTS FROM A COMPARISON OF THE GERMAN AND US-AMERICAN SYNTHETIC RUBBER PROGRAMS BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER WORLD WAR 11.1 Jochen Streb Heidelberg University ABSTRACT I investigated the effect of government demand on firms’ innovation activi ties comparing the German and American synthetic rubber industries be fore, during and after World War II. I obtained three main results. 1. Be cause ofthe low price ofnatural tubber, price and sales guarantees were needed to motivate firms to produce the synthetic rubber BUNA S. 2. Facing fixed prices I.G. Farben improved their efficiency more than the American firms working under cost plus contracts. 3. The patent sharing agreement of the American synthetic rubber program caused firms to hold back advanced syn thetic rubber inventions. Can International Competitiveness be Achieved through National Technology Policy? Present-day mass unemployment and low economic growth in many European econo mies have led to doubts about whether domestic industries can deal with increasing competition from producers in countries with lower wages. However, international com parative research shows that firms located in a country with comparatively high wages may be able to dominate international competition in the long term, as long as they are in a position to open new markets by applying innovative technologies.2 This is due to the fact that the first mover has an array of economic advantages over his competitors who lag behind. At first, the innovator’s already established brand name may have tied the consumers to his products. In addition, it is also possible that he can underbid the emerging competitors in a price war, even with comparatively high wages, since on ac count of his greater current and accumulated output he experiences cost reductions due to economies of scale and increases in efficiency subsequent to “Learning by doing.” Finally, his greater experience leads to advantage with the new technologies in the area of research and development.
    [Show full text]
  • Report of the Undergraduate Student Government on Eating Club Demographic Collection, Transparency, and Inclusivity
    REPORT OF THE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT GOVERNMENT ON EATING CLUB DEMOGRAPHIC COLLECTION, TRANSPARENCY, AND INCLUSIVITY PREPARED IN RESPONSE TO WINTER 2016 REFERENDUM ON EATING CLUB DEMOGRAPHIC COLLECTION April 2017 Referendum Response Team Members: U-Councilor Olivia Grah ‘19i ​ Senator Andrew Ma ‘19 Senator Eli Schechner ‘18 Public Relations Chair Maya Wesby ‘18 i Chair​ Contents Sec. I. Executive Summary 2 Sec. II. Background 5 § A. Eating Clubs and the University 5 § B. Research on Peer Institutions: Final Clubs, Secret Societies, and Greek Life 6 § C. The Winter 2016 Referendum 8 Sec. III. Arguments 13 § A. In Favor of the Referendum 13 § B. In Opposition to the Referendum 14 § C. Proposed Alternatives to the Referendum 16 Sec. IV. Recommendations 18 Sec. V. Acknowledgments 19 1 Sec. I. Executive Summary Princeton University’s eating clubs boast membership from two-thirds of the Princeton upperclass student body. The eating clubs are private entities, and information regarding demographic information of eating club members is primarily limited to that collected in the University’s senior survey and the USG-sponsored voluntary COMBO survey. The Task Force on the Relationships between the University and the Eating Clubs published a report in 2010 investigating the role of eating clubs on campus, recommending the removal of barriers to inclusion and diversity and the addition of eating club programming for prospective students and University-sponsored alternative social programming. Demographic collection for exclusive groups is not the norm at Ivy League institutions. Harvard’s student newspaper issued an online survey in 2013 to collect information about final club membership, reporting on ethnicity, sexuality, varsity athletic status, and legacy status.
    [Show full text]
  • Chapter 4: Answers and Comments
    Chapter 4: Answers and Comments Answers: I. True or False 1. See textbook. 2. False. One of the most common mistakes. The focus should be even if the premise is true, the reasoning is weak. 3. See textbook. 4. True. We could criticize the truth of the premise as well, but this would not be relevant to the focus of a fallacy of relevance. 5. True. There is nothing inherently wrong with loyalty as a behavior or an emotion. The point is there should be good reasons, which we have thought about, for our loyalty commitments. 6. FALSE! Two Wrongs is a fallacy of relevance, so the focus is not on the truth of the premise. The focus should be on the reasoning. Usually the premise is true, but irrelevant to why either item compared should be considered good. 7. See textbook. 8. False. The name-calling is always in the premise. 9. False. In our age many in-group appeals are aimed at sub-cultural groups. People who believe they are more intelligent than most, more cool, more modern, etc. 10. True. 11. True. For a complete argument analysis, these two points must be made. 12. False. It was used as an example for structuring arguments. It will be covered in Chapter 5. We will see that it is a fallacy of relevance and it always has a premise that is relevant to the conclusion. 13. False. There could be very good reasons for a particular act of loyalty. 14. True. In this chapter there will be situations where the difference between one label and another is inconsequential.
    [Show full text]
  • Chapter 4: INFORMAL FALLACIES I
    Essential Logic Ronald C. Pine Chapter 4: INFORMAL FALLACIES I All effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare necessities and then must be expressed in a few stereotyped formulas. Adolf Hitler Until the habit of thinking is well formed, facing the situation to discover the facts requires an effort. For the mind tends to dislike what is unpleasant and so to sheer off from an adequate notice of that which is especially annoying. John Dewey, How We Think Introduction In everyday speech you may have heard someone refer to a commonly accepted belief as a fallacy. What is usually meant is that the belief is false, although widely accepted. In logic, a fallacy refers to logically weak argument appeal (not a belief or statement) that is widely used and successful. Here is our definition: A logical fallacy is an argument that is usually psychologically persuasive but logically weak. By this definition we mean that fallacious arguments work in getting many people to accept conclusions, that they make bad arguments appear good even though a little commonsense reflection will reveal that people ought not to accept the conclusions of these arguments as strongly supported. Although logicians distinguish between formal and informal fallacies, our focus in this chapter and the next one will be on traditional informal fallacies.1 For our purposes, we can think of these fallacies as "informal" because they are most often found in the everyday exchanges of ideas, such as newspaper editorials, letters to the editor, political speeches, advertisements, conversational disagreements between people in social networking sites and Internet discussion boards, and so on.
    [Show full text]
  • Obama's Discourse of "Hope": Making Rhetoric Work Politically
    Obama's discourse of "hope": Making rhetoric work politically Marcus Letts University of Bristol © Marcus Letts School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies University of Bristol Working Paper No. 04-09 Marcus Letts is a former undergraduate student in the Department of Politics, University of Bristol. This paper, originally a BSc dissertation, received the highest mark awarded to any BSc dissertation in Politics at the University of Bristol in 2008-2009. A revised version of this paper is currently being prepared for submission to the journal New Political Science. University of Bristol School of Sociology, Politics, and International Studies Title: Obama's discourse of "hope": Making rhetoric work politically (Morris, C. 2008) Question: What is articulated in Obama's discourse of "hope"? How did this rhetoric work politically? Marcus Letts Word Count: 9,899 2 Contents: Introduction: The US elections of 2008: A contextualisation The "strange death of Republican America": A grand theme of change................................ 5 A "rhetorical situation"?.......................................................................................................... 6 The birth of "Brand Obama": An exceptional campaign........................................................ 7 The nature of American "polyarchy"...................................................................................... 9 Literature Review: Two theories of discourse. Derrida's deconstruction and Laclau logics: A theory of discourse.......................................10
    [Show full text]
  • November 2017
    COLONIAL CLUB Fall Newsletter November 2017 GRADUATE BOARD OF GOVERNORS Angelica Pedraza ‘12 President A Letter from THE PRESIDENT David Genetti ’98 Vice President OF THE GRADUATE BOARD Joseph Studholme ’84 Treasurer Paul LeVine, Jr. ’72 Secretary Dear Colonial Family, Kristen Epstein ‘97 We are excited to welcome back the Colonial undergraduate Norman Flitt ‘72 members for what is sure to be another great year at the Club. Sean Hammer ‘08 John McMurray ‘95 Fall is such a special time on campus. The great class of 2021 has Sev Onyshkevych ‘83 just passed through FitzRandolph Gate, the leaves are beginning Edward Ritter ’83 to change colors, and it’s the one time of year that orange is Adam Rosenthal, ‘11 especially stylish! Andrew Stein ‘90 Hal L. Stern ‘84 So break out all of your orange swag, because Homecoming is November 11th. Andrew Weintraub ‘10 In keeping with tradition, the Club will be ready to welcome all of its wonderful alumni home for Colonial’s Famous Champagne Brunch. Then, the Tigers take on the Bulldogs UNDERGRADUATE OFFICERS at 1:00pm. And, after the game, be sure to come back to the Club for dinner. Matthew Lucas But even if you can’t make it to Homecoming, there are other opportunities to stay President connected. First, Colonial is working on an updated Club history to commemorate our Alisa Fukatsu Vice-President 125th anniversary, which we celebrated in 2016. Former Graduate Board President, Alexander Regent Joseph Studholme, is leading the charge and needs your help. If you have any pictures, Treasurer stories, or memorabilia from your time at the club, please contact the Club Manager, Agustina de la Fuente Kathleen Galante, at [email protected].
    [Show full text]
  • In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of A
    IN SEARCH OF THE AMAZON AMERICAN ENCOUNTERS/GLOBAL INTERACTIONS A series edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Emily S. Rosenberg This series aims to stimulate critical perspectives and fresh interpretive frameworks for scholarship on the history of the imposing global pres- ence of the United States. Its primary concerns include the deployment and contestation of power, the construction and deconstruction of cul- tural and political borders, the fluid meanings of intercultural encoun- ters, and the complex interplay between the global and the local. American Encounters seeks to strengthen dialogue and collaboration between histo- rians of U.S. international relations and area studies specialists. The series encourages scholarship based on multiarchival historical research. At the same time, it supports a recognition of the represen- tational character of all stories about the past and promotes critical in- quiry into issues of subjectivity and narrative. In the process, American Encounters strives to understand the context in which meanings related to nations, cultures, and political economy are continually produced, chal- lenged, and reshaped. IN SEARCH OF THE AMAzon BRAZIL, THE UNITED STATES, AND THE NATURE OF A REGION SETH GARFIELD Duke University Press Durham and London 2013 © 2013 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid- free paper ♾ Designed by Heather Hensley Typeset in Scala by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in - Publication Data Garfield, Seth. In search of the Amazon : Brazil, the United States, and the nature of a region / Seth Garfield. pages cm—(American encounters/global interactions) Includes bibliographical references and index.
    [Show full text]
  • De Oratore I
    D E O R A T O R E BO O" 1 TRA N S L A TED IN TO E N G LIS H W ITH A N IN T R O DU C TIO N B Y P E N . MOOR M . , . A . A S S I S T A N T M A S T E R A T C L I F T O N C O L L E G E filamj um a nti 1 8 BU RY S TREET W C , . L O N D O N 1 8 9 2 IN TR O D U C TIO N H T E t hre e b o o k s De Ora tore seem to have been B . C 5 5 written by Cicero in the year . It was n t o n s o f a time when, owi g the i crea ing power the fo r Triumvirs, there was little room any political activity o n o f his the part Cicero . On recall from exile in the preceding year he had conceived som e hopes o f again taking a leading part in political life but owing partly to the lukewarmness o f some and the downright faith o f o f lessness others his old supporters, which made it impossible for him to resume his o l d place at the head o f s ro the optimates, and partly to the clo er union p du ced between Pom peia s and Caesar by the conference s at Luca, he thought it more advi able to withdraw f m s a s inva ri ro public life and con ole himself, was his 1 w able custom , with literary work .
    [Show full text]