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Invoking the Fathers: Dangerous Metaphors and Founding Myths in Congressional Politics, by Sarah Kornfield
This edited volume analyzes political speeches in the last thirty years from a discourse analysis perspective. In real and fictitious political speeches, as important as the contents, are the emotions these texts elicit, moving audiences to support a running candidate or to endorse a political decision. By political speeches we encompass political speeches given in political meetings and rallies as well as parliamentary discourse in various legislative bodies in real life or in fiction contexts. Public authorities’ declarations and statements can also be considered.
"Fighting for the Higher Law is not just the most comprehensive study to date of Transcendentalism's relationship to the abolitionist movement but a gripping story to boot." ~Journal of American History
"Ogren offers an insightful revisionist take on how esoteric Jewish texts shaped American religious thought in the 17th and 18th centuries ... Historians of American Judaism must take a look." ~Publishers Weekly
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