CRISES IN AMERICAN ORATORY: A HISTORY OF RHETORICAL INADEQUACY

Foreword, by Bernard K. Duffy
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Redefining the Canon of Speeches in American Public Address 

Part One Crises in Forensic Oratory 

Ch 1. Eloquent Silence and Abraham Lincoln Brian Snee

Ch 2. Liars, Sinners, and Con Men: The Role of Ethos in Rhetorical Inadequacy Kerry Owens and Todd S. Frobish

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1. Orval Faubus, Explanation of Troop Deployment
2. Mayor Richard Daley, Justification of Police
3. President William Jefferson Clinton, Apology for Affair
4. Vice President Spiro Agnew, Resignation
5. President Richard Nixon, I'm Not a Crook
6. Reverend Jim Bakker,* Denial of Misconduct
7. Reverend Jimmy Swaggart,* Confessions of a Sinner
8. President Richard M. Nixon , Integrity of the White House
9. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chappaquiddick
10. Cardinal Bernard Law,* Wake-Up Call for the Church
11. Representative Gary Condit,* Interview about Chandra Levys Disappearance
12. John Lampe, Testimony Concerning Firestone Tires
13. President George W. Bush, State of the Union Address

Part Two Crises in Epideictic Oratory 

Ch 3. Ten Senses of Rhetorical Inadequacy: An Examination of Inadequacy in Epideictic Oratory Brian R. McGee and Deborah Socha McGee

Ch 4. Occasional Failure: Analyzing Rhetorical Inadequacy in Epideictic Address Richard K. Olsen and Lloyd Rohler

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1. Vice President Dan Quayle,* Critique of Murphy Brown
2. Vice President Spiro Agnew, On the National Media
3. Senator James Henry Hammond, The Mudsill Theory
4. President Jimmy Carter, A Crisis of Confidence
5. President Harry S. Truman, On Removing General MacArthur from Korean Command
6. President Woodrow Wilson, Address to the Indian
7. Charles Lindbergh,* Des Moines Speech on Nazism
8. Justice Thurgood Marshall, Reflections on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution
9. Ann Richards,* Keynote Address
10. President Ronald Reagan, Remarks at the Annual Convention of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society
11. Patrick Buchanan,* America is Still God's Country
12. Chris Hedges,* Commencement Address
13. Governor George C. Wallace, Schoolhouse Door Speech

Part Three Crises in Deliberative Oratory 

Ch 5 Richard M. Nixons Cambodia Incursion Speech: A Study in Rhetorical Inadequacy Nola Heidlebaugh

Ch 6 Huey Longs Share-Our-Wealth Program: The Politics of Despair and Hope Bernard K. Duffy

Ch 7 Art and Effect: Sorting Out Persuasive Inadequacy Michael J. Hostetler

The Collection 

1. Ross Perot,* You People at the NAACP
2. President Lyndon B. Johnson, Gulf of Tonkin
3. Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Exposition Address
4. David Duke,* Future Political Plans
5. Angelina Grimké Weld, Speech in Pennsylvania Hall
6. Vice Admiral James Stockdale,* Who Am I?
7. Michael Dukakis, Making America Number 1 in the World
8. President George Bush, Address to the Nation on the Federal Budget Agreement
9. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, Wheeling, West Virginia
10. President Andrew Jackson, On Indian Removal
11. Phyllis Schlafly, The ERAIs There a Future?
12. Governor George C. Wallace, The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax
13. Vice President Al Gore,* Acceptance Speech at the 1996 Democratic Convention 202
14. Senator Huey P. Long, Every Man a King
15. President Richard M. Nixon, Cambodia Incursion Address

Conclusion: Rhetorical Inadequacy: A Reality of Contemporary Public Address

* Where the text of these speeches wo