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This is Volume 2 of a two-volume rhetorical history of public debates about crime, violence, and corporeal and capital punishment in the US. While Volume 1 provided a historical overview of capital punishment, Volume 2 analyzes historical cases highlighting debates on the death penalty during the period, especially exchanges between George Barrell Cheever, a Calvinist minister, and John O'Sullivan, editor of an abolitionist magazine. The debaters draw their arguments from the work of writers and thinkers of the Revolutionary and Federalist eras, which were covered in Volume 1. B&w historical illustrations are included. Together, the two volumes map how the country's debates about the death penalty influenced thinking about national identity and character, gender and sexuality, class and capitalism, religion and modernity, race and slavery, and Enlightenment and democracy. Hartnett teaches communication at the University of Colorado-Denver. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
