American public address
By: studies in honor of Albert Craig Baird.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1961
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Baird, Albert Craig, -- 1883-; Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- History and criticism.
Notes: bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: value: Albert Craig Baird, by O.A. Hitchcock.; value: The law: The public speeches of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, by D.I. Anderson.The speaking of Clarence Darrow, by H.G. Rahskopf.; value: The ministry: Harry  Emerson Fosdick; a study in sources of effectiveness, by R.C. McCall. Ralph Washington Sockman, twentieth century circuit rider, by F.J. Barton.; value: The State: Albert Baird Cummins; an analysis of a logical speaker, by E.W. Harrington, the public speaking of Robert M. La Follette, by G.F. Hostettler. Theodore Roosevelt, the preacher militant, by C.A. Dallinger. William Jennings Bryan, crusader for the common man, by M. Wood. The speaking of Albert J. Beveridge, by H.E. Gulley. The political speaking of William E. Borah, by W.W. Braden. Franklin D. Roosevelt, a study in leadership through persuasion, by L. Crowell, L.L. Cowperthwaite, and E. Brandenburg. Thomas E. Dewey; the great Social and political issues: Eugene Victor Debs, spokesman for socialism, by H.T. Ross. Ralph Bunche, Negro spokesman, by G. Phifer. The reporter as orator; Edward R. Murrow, by O.T. Reynolds and L. Thonssen.