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American

  • Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings
         CALL NUMBER:  E457.92 1946

  • Abraham Lincoln, the Orator : Penetrating the Lincoln Legend
         CALL NUMBER:  E457.2 .E46 1992
  • America in Controversy; History of American Public Address
         CALL NUMBER:  PS400 .A4

  • American Orators of the Twentieth Century : Critical Studies and Sources
         CALL NUMBER:  PN4193 .P6 A44 1987
  • A History and Criticism of American Public Address
         CALL NUMBER:  PS400 .S66 v.3
  • History of Public Speaking in America
         CALL NUMBER:  PS400 .O4
  • I Have a Dream; the Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr.
         CALL NUMBER:  E185.615 .K532 1968
  • Pioneer Women Orators; Rhetoric in the Ante-bellum Reform Movement
         CALL NUMBER:  PS407 .O35
  • Rhetoric and American Poetry of the Early National Period
         CALL NUMBER:  PS314 .B5

  • The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War, 1945-1955
         CALL NUMBER:  E813 .P34 2002
  • Texts in Context : Critical Dialogues on Significant Episodes in American Political Rhetoric
         CALL NUMBER:  PN239 .P64 T4 1989

Classical

  • Classical Rhetoric for Modern Discourse; an Art of Invention, Arrangement, and Style for Readers, Speakers, and Writers
         CALL NUMBER:  PA3265 .M3 1969 

  • Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student
         CALL NUMBER:  PN4121 .M579 1969
  • A New History of Classical Rhetoric
         CALL NUMBER:  PA3038 .K46 1994

  • The Origins of Rhetoric in Ancient Greece
         CALL NUMBER:  PA401 .C65 1991
  • Readings in Classical Rhetoric
         CALL NUMBER:  PA3637 .R5 B4
  • Rhetoric at Rome, a Historical Survey
         CALL NUMBER:  PA6083 .C6 1963
  • A Synoptic History of Classical Rhetoric
         CALL NUMBER: PA3265 .M8
  • The Thinker as Artist : From Homer to Plato & Aristotle
         CALL NUMBER:  PA3052 .A48 1997

General

  • The Abuse of Casuistry : A History of Moral Reasoning
         CALL NUMBER:  BJ1441 .J66 1988

  • Argumentation, Communication, and Fallacies: A Pragma-Dialectical Perspective
         CALL NUMBER:  P301.5 .P47 E33 1992

  • Persuasion; Speech and Behavioral Change
         CALL NUMBER:  PN4121 .C756

  • Principles and Types of Speech
         CALL NUMBER:  PN4121 .M579 1967

  • Principles of Speech Communication
         CALL NUMBER:  PN4121 .M579 1969
  • The Theory of Communicative Action
         CALL NUMBER:  HM24 .H3213 1984 v.1
  • The Uses of Argument
         CALL NUMBER:  BC177 .T 6 1958