TY - BOOK AU - Darsey,James Francis TI - The prophetic tradition and radical rhetoric in America AV - PN4055.U53 D37 1997 U1 - 808.5/1/088329 21 PY - 1997///] CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - Political oratory KW - Social aspects KW - United States KW - English language KW - Rhetoric KW - Radicalism KW - Prophecy KW - Social problems KW - Social conditions KW - 1980- KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references 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 UR - http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/daystar-ebooks/detail.action?docID=865361 ER -