American Silhouettes: Rhetorical Identities of the Founders

by Albert Furtwangler

Book Overview

Franklin, John Adams, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, John Marshall-all are familiar yet curiously distant American heroes, blurred by the similarities of their background and culture. In this engrossing book Albert Furtwangler looks at these men in turn, examining either a document or a telling incident in their lives in order to explore what was distinctive and unique about each of them. "An intriguing study of the rhetorical identities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300045018
• ISBN13: 9780300045017
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"