Darsey, James Francis, <br/><br/>
The prophetic tradition and radical rhetoric in America / 
James Darsey. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 279 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780814720981 (e-book) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political oratory--Social aspects--United States.<br/>English language--Rhetoric.--United States<br/>Rhetoric--Social aspects--United States.<br/>Radicalism--United States.<br/>Prophecy--Social aspects--United States.<br/>Social problems--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Social conditions--1980-
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN4055.U53  / D37 1997 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>808.5/1/088329