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Edward Everett - Unionist Orator (Hardcover, New)
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Edward Everett - Unionist Orator (Hardcover, New)
Series: Great American Orators
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If Edward Everett is remembered at all today, it is as the orator
who gave the other speech at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November
19, 1863. Ironically, Everett's oration, which was given wide
coverage in contemporary newspapers, was recognized as both
epideictic and argumentative. Everett defended the Union cause,
whereas Lincoln's speech was strictly ceremonial. A second irony
that attends Everett's oratorical career is that his countrymen
believed him to be one of the great orators of the time, the
undisputed master of ceremonial address. In this first new study of
Edward Everett's oratory, author Ronald Reid addresses the
historical and oratorical paradoxes that have influenced
perceptions of Everett's career. Reid reconstitutes the role of
epideictic rhetoric in the United States from the end of the
Revolutionary War to the eve of the Civil War and reinstates
Everett in the pantheon of great American orators. He demonstrates
why Everett fell into virtual obscurity and treats the reader to a
penetrating analysis of the role of public persuasion in the United
States during a critical period in its history. In Edward Everett:
Unionist Orator Reid effectively restores Everett to his rightful
rostrum in the unfolding national drama from the 1820s to the
1860s, providing a sweeping story of America's golden age of
oratory in the process. The book opens with a discussion of the
influence of Everett's eighteenth-century heritage on his desire to
save the Union at all costs. The author shows how the seeds of
Everett's Unionism were starting to sprout in his literary and
theological speeches and writings, and how he developed the
rhetorical methods that he would use throughout his career.Next,
Reid deals with Everett's oratory during his years of service,
first as a congressman and then as governor of Massachusetts. Here
he discusses Everett's increasing concern about the divisiveness of
the partisan and sectional causes he espoused. Chapters three and
four deal with Everett's modification of his earlier Unionist
strategies in an effort to deal with increasing sectionalism and
preserve the United States. In conclusion, Reid reviews Everett's
oratory, speculating about the role of epideictic oratory in
general in maintaining, or failing to maintain, social unity.
Sample speeches complete the work, which include a partial text of
one of Everett's congressional speeches, a 4th of July oration, his
"Character of Washington," and a partial text of Everett's
Gettysburg address.
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