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The Political Style of Conspiracy: Chase, Sumner, and Lincoln

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The Political Style of Conspiracy: Chase, Sumner, and Lincoln - Pfau, Michael William
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The Political Style of Conspiracy analyzes the concept and reality of the "slave power" in the rhetorical discourse of the mid-nineteenth-century, in particular the speeches and writing of politicians Salmon P. Chase, Charles Sumner, and Abraham Lincoln. By examining their mainstream texts, Pfau reveals that, in addition to the "paranoid style" of conspiracy rhetoric that inhabits the margins of political life, Lincoln, Chase, and Sumner also engaged in a distinctive form of conspiracy rhetoric that is often found at the ...

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The Political Style of Conspiracy: Chase, Sumner, and Lincoln 2005, Michigan State University Press

ISBN-13: 9780870137600

Hardcover