TY - BOOK AU - Darsey,James Francis ED - Project Muse. TI - The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America / SN - 9780814720981 AV - PN4055.U53 D37 1997 U1 - 808.5/1/088329 21 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - Social problems KW - United States KW - Prophecy KW - Social aspects KW - Radicalism KW - Rhetoric KW - English language KW - Political oratory KW - Social conditions KW - 1980- KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-267) and index; Radical rhetoric and American community : threnody for Sophrosyne -- Old Testament prophecy as radical ursprach -- Prophecy as sacred truth : self-evidence and righteousness in the American Revolution -- Prophecy as krisis : Wendell Phillips and the sin of slavery -- The prophet's call and his burden : the passion of Eugene V. Debs -- The word in darkness -- A vision of the apocalypse : Joe McCarthy's rhetoric of the fantastic -- Prophecy as poetry : the romantic vision of Robert Welch -- Secular argument and the language of commodity : gay liberation and merely civil rights -- The seraph and the snake; Open Access UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/7855/ ER -