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This is the first volume of the projected ten-volume A Rhetorical History of the United States: Significant Moments in American Public Discourse. Limited to the colonial era, the volume's nine essays focus "most particularly," to quote volume editor Andrews (emeritus, communication and culture and American studies, Indiana U.), "on the rhetoric that shaped the Puritan mission, the modification of the Puritan message, the dissent from such orthodoxy, and the implications of religious communication forms, practices, and content for a developing American ethos." Within that framework, authors have been left free to treat their topic in any manner they wish and have chosen to discuss the scholarly uses to which John Winthrop's "City on a Hill" sermon have been put, the relationship between Puritan rhetoric and culture as revealed by John Cotton's biblical commentaries, the role of Puritan "special occasion" sermons in the construction of US civil religion, the rhetorical separation of church and state by Puritan dissident Roger Williams, the rhetorical defense of Anne Hutchinson, Quaker proselytizing and preaching, and connections between religious and political rhetoric (including the relationship of the radical preaching of Samuel Davis to the political rhetoric of Patrick Henry). Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
