Democratic Eloquence: The Fight over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-Century America

By Kenneth Cmiel

Book Overview

Democratic Eloquence tells the dramatic story of how Americans thought and argued about the English language between 1776 and 1900. The rise of a popular democracy in the early nineteenth century... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688083528
• ISBN13: 9780688083526
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 351 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"