A Nation of Speechifiers: Making an American Public after the Revolution
"The peoples of the early American republic were engaged in an epochal struggle over who could claim public citizenship. In a wide-ranging analysis, Carolyn Eastman provides a careful reading of this contest on the boundaries of the public sphere, describing the ways in which traditionally excluded Americans were moving into public space and claiming the title of citizen. A Nation of Speechifiers will be an important book." - John L. Brooke, Ohio State University"