Telling Katrina Stories: Problems and Opportunities in Engaging Disaster

ELOQUENCE IS POWER: ORATORY AND PERFORMANCE IN EARLY AMERICA. By Sandra M. Gustafson. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000; pp vii + 287. Cloth $39.95; paper $17.95.

BIAS: A CBS INSIDER EXPOSES HOW THE MEDIA DISTORT THE NEWS. By Bernard Goldberg. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2002; pp. 214+. Cloth $27.95

THE UNFINISHED BOMBING: OKLAHOMA CITY IN AMERICAN MEMORY. By Edward T. Linenthal. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. pp. ix + 304. $30.00.

ALTERNATIVE RHETORICS: CHALLENGES TO THE RHETORICAL TRADITION. Edited by Laura Gray‐Rosendale and Sibylle Gruber. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001; pp. vii + 269. $65.50; paper $21.95.

ELECTRIC RHETORIC: CLASSICAL RHETORIC, ORALISM, AND A NEW LITERACY. By Kathleen E. Welch. Cambridge, MS: The MIT Press, 1999; 240 pp. + xvii. $35.00.     

Review Essay: Cultivating a Rhetoric of Agrarianism

CONTROL AND CONSOLATION IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND POLITICS: RHETORICS OF THERAPY. By Dana Cloud. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1998; pp. 224. Cloth $67.95; Paper $31.95.

DANGEROUS LIAISONS: GENDER, NATION, AND POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES. By Anne McClintock, Aamir Mufti, and Ella Shohat. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1997; pp. 560. Cloth $62.95; Paper $24.95.

WHITENESS: THE COMMUNICATION OF SOCIAL IDENTITY. Edited by Thomas Nakayama and Judith Martin. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1999; pp. xiv + 314. Cloth $73.95; Paper $36.95.     

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The Literacy Test for Immigrants: A Debate. University of Chicago, Chapter of Delta Sigma Rho, Chicago, 1916. Paper, pp. 62, $1.00.

The Brief‐Maker's Notebook. By WARREN CHOATE SHAW. New York: Ginn & Co., 1916. Cloth, $1.00.

The Elements of Public Speaking. BY HARRY GARFIELD HOUGH‐TON. New York: Ginn and Co., 1916. Cloth, $1.50.

Thinking as a Science. By HENRY HAZLITT. New York: E. P. Button & Co., 1916. Cloth, pp. 251. $1.00.

Universities Debaters’ Annual. Edited by EDWARD C. MABIE. White Plains, N. Y. The H. W. Wilson Company, 1916. Cloth, pp. 294. $1.80.

American Merchant Marine. Edited by E. M. PHELPS. White Plains, New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1916. Cloth, pp. xxviii+2180 $1.00.

Debaters’ Manual. Edited by E. M. PHELPS. White Plains, New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1916. Cloth, pp. x+181. $1.00.

Lessons in Public Speaking and Oral Reading for Class and Private Drill. By JOHN R. PELSMA. Austin, Texas, 1916. Published by the author. Cloth, pp. 58. $0.40.

Community Drama and Pageantry. By MARY PORTER BEEGLE and JACK RANDALL CRAWFORD. New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press, 1916. Cloth and boards, pp. 370. $2.50.     

Book reviews

DIGITAL SENSATIONS: SPACE, IDENTITY, AND EMBODIMENT IN VIRTUAL REALITY. By Ken Hillis. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999; pp. xi + 271. $47.95 cloth; $18.95 paper.

THOMAS KUHN: A PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY FOR OUR TIMES. By Steve Fuller. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000; pp. xvii + 472.

PROMETHEUS WIRED: THE HOPE FOR DEMOCRACY IN THE AGE OF NETWORK TECHNOLOGY. By Darin Barney. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2000; pp. 340. $29.00.

DEWEY ON DEMOCRACY. By William R. Caspary. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000; pp. 256. $39.95.

THE ORGANIZING PROPERTY OF COMMUNICATION. By François Cooren. Philadelphia and Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2000; pp. 272. $50.00.

CRAFTING SOCIETY: ETHNICITY, CLASS, AND COMMUNICATION THEORY. By Donald G. Ellis. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1999; pp. xvi + 229. $49.95.

PROGAY/ANTIGAY: THE RHETORICAL WAR OVER SEXUALITY. Ralph R. Smith and Russel R. Windes. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 2000; pp. xxiv + 240.

THEORIES OF CULTURE IN POSTMODERN TIMES. By Marvin Harris. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1999; pp. 224. Cloth $62.00; Paper $22.95.

PRESIDENTIAL CRISIS RHETORIC AND THE PRESS IN THE POST‐COLD WAR WORLD. By Jim A. Kuypers. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997; pp. xi + 242.     

The New Citizen

MITEINANDER SPRECHEN UND HANDELN: FESTSCHRIFT FÜR HELLMUT GEISSNER. Edited by Edith Slembek. Frankfurt (Main): Scriptor Verlag, 1986; pp. 360.

REALISM AND RELATIVISM: A PERSPECTIVE ON KENNETH BURKE. By Robert L. Heath. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1986; pp. xi + 270. $34.95.

THE INVENTION OF ATHENS: THE FUNERAL ORATION IN THE CLASSICAL CITY. By Nicole Loraux, translated from the French by Alan Sheridan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986; pp. xiv + 479. $35.00.

THE IDEA OF THE GOOD IN PLATONIC‐ARISTOTELIAN PHILOSOPHY. By Hans‐Georg Gadamer. Translated and with an introduction and annotation by P. Christopher Smith. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986; pp. xxxii + 182. $20.00.

ARISTOTLE'S POETICS. By Stephen Halliwell. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986; pp. xi + 369. $30.00.

THE LANGUAGE OF ETHNIC CONFLICT: SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND LEXICAL CULTURE. By Irving Lewis Allen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983; pp. 162. $22.00; paper, $11.00.

RHETORIC AND PRAXIS: THE CONTRIBUTION OF CLASSICAL RHETORIC TO PRACTICAL REASONING. Edited by Jean Dietz Moss. Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 1986; pp. vii‐172. $24.00.

EPISTEMOLOGY AND COGNITION. By Alvin I. Goldman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986; pp. viii + 437. $27.50.

THE MIND'S NEW SCIENCE: A HISTORY OF THE COGNITIVE REVOLUTION. By Howard Gardner. New York: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 1985; pp. xv + 423. $22.50.

CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN LANGUAGE AND DISCOURSE PROCESSES. Edited by Donald G. Ellis and William A. Donahue. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1986; pp. x + 285. $32.00.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE: FEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM. Edited by Gayle Greene and Coppélia Kahn. New York: Methuen, 1985; pp. 273. $25.00; paper $10.95.

FEMINIST CRITICISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE: SEX, CLASS AND RACE IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE. Edited by Judith Newton and Deborah Rosenfelt. New York: Methuen, 1985; pp. xi + 273. $29.95; paper $12.95.

THE TOLERANT SOCIETY. By Lee C. Bollinger. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986; pp. 1 + 195. $19.95.

A WAR OF WORDS: CHICANO PROTEST IN THE 1960s AND 1970s. By John C. Hammerback, Richard J. Jensen, and Jose Angel Gutierrez. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985; pp. x + 187. $29.95.

THE PANAMA CANAL IN AMERICAN POLITICS: DOMESTIC ADVOCACY AND THE EVOLUTION OF POLICY. By J. Michael Hogan. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986; pp. viii + 291. $24.95.

THOUGHT AND CHARACTER: THE RHETORIC OF DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION. By Frederick J. Antczak. Ames, Iowa: The Iowa State University Press, 1985; pp. 242. $27.50.

THE INTERPRETATION OF MATERIAL SHAPES IN PURITANISM: A STUDY OF RHETORIC, PREJUDICE, AND VIOLENCE. By Ann Kibbey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986; pp. xi + 203. $27.95.

SPEECH COMMUNICATION IN THE 20TH CENTURY. Edited by Thomas W. Benson. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1985; pp. xii + 475; $30.00.

TIME, NARRATIVE, AND HISTORY. By David Carr. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986; pp. ix + 189. $22.50.

CRITIQUE OF COMMODITY AESTHETICS: APPEARANCE, SEXUALITY, AND ADVERTISING IN CAPITALIST SOCIETY. By W.F. Haug. Introduction by Stuart Hall. Translated by Robert Bock. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986; pp. vii + 185. $35.00; paper, $14.95.

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL ADVERTISING. Edited by Lynda Lee Kaid, Dan Nimmo, and Keith R. Sanders. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986; pp. xx + 370. Cloth $34.50.

ADVERTISING THE AMERICAN DREAM: MAKING WAY FOR MODERNITY, 1920–1940. By Roland Marchand. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1985; pp. xxii + 448. $27.50; paper $14.95.

WORLD BROADCASTING IN THE AGE OF THE SATELLITE: COMPARATIVE SYSTEMS, POLICIES AND ISSUES IN MASS TELECOMMUNICATION. By W. J. Howell, Jr. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1986; pp. 332. $45.00; paper $27.50.

AMERICAN MYTH AND THE LEGACY OF VIETNAM. By John Hellmann. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986; pp. xi + 241. $24.95.

TELEVISION AND THE RED MENACE: THE VIDEO ROAD TO VIETNAM. By J. Fred MacDonald. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1985; pp. 1 + 256. $31.95; paper $14.95.

THE “UNCENSORED WAR”: THE MEDIA AND VIETNAM. By Daniel C. Hallin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986; pp. vi + 285. $22.50.

CHILDREN AND TELEVISION: A SEMIOTIC APPROACH. By Bob Hodge and David Tripp. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986; pp. vi + 233. $32.50.

MISUNDERSTANDING MEDIA. By Brian Winston. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1986; pp. v + 322. $22.50.     

The Humanities Chart Their Course. Report of the Second Annual Conference held by the Stanford School of Humanities. Stanford University Press. 78 pp. $1.00

EDUCATION: A College Program in Action by the Committee on Plans. Columbia University Press. Preface by Harry James Carman. 171 pp. $2.00.

Diagnostic and Remedial Teaching in Secondary Schools by Glenn Myers Blair. New York: The Macmillan Co. 422 pp. $3.25.

Field Work in College Education by Lynd, Helen Merrell. Sarah Lawrence Publication No. 5, Columbia University Press, New York, 1945, 302 pp. $2.75.

Guiding Youth in the Secondary School by Leslie L. Chisholm American Book Company. 433 pp. $3.25.

Henry Barnard's American Journal of Education by Richard E. Thursfield. The Johns Hopkins Press. 359 pp. $3.00

School Boards in Action, Twenty-fourth Year Book, American Association of School Administrators, Washington, D.C. 413 pp. $2.00.

Elementary Courses in the Humanities. Report of the Third Annual Conference held by the Stanford School of Humanities. Foreword by F. W. Strothmann. Stanford University Press, Stanford University, California. 146 pp. $2.00.

ENGLISH: Learning Our Language by Thomas F. Dunn and Charles A. Ranous. Wm. C. Brown Co., Dubuque, Iowa. 379 pp. $2.50.

HISTORY: The Formative Years of the Catholic University of America by John Tracy Ellis, American Catholic Historical Association, Washington, 407 pp. $3.00.

PSYCHOLOGY: Controlled Eye Movements Versus Practice Exercises in Reading by Frederick Lowell Westover. Contributions to Education No. 91 7. New York: Bureau of Publications, Teachers College, Columbia University. 100 pp. $1.95.

SCIENCE: Atomic Energy in Cosmic and Human Life by George Gamow. University Press, Cambridge, and the Macmillan Company, New York. 159 pp., $3.00.

SOCIAL STUDIES: Conditions of Civilized Living by Robert Ulich. E. P. Dutton and Company, Inc. 244 pp. $3.75.

The Public and Its Problems by John Dewey. Gateway Books, 301 East 18th Street, Chicago 16, Illinois. 219 pp. $2.50.

Problems of Men by John Dewey. Philosophical Library, New York. 418 pp. $5.00.

The Roots of American Loyalty by Merle Curti. Columbia University Press. 256 pp. $3.00.     

Amateur and specialist in industrial democracy

Abraham Flexner's Universities American, English, German. Introduction by Robert Ulich. New York: Teachers College Press, Teachers College Columbia University, 1967. 339 pp. Cloth $6.50. today.

Taming Megalopolis. Volumes I and II. Edited by H. Wentworth Eldredge. New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., (Anchor Books), 1967. 1166 pp. $2.45 each volume.

Vision of Children: An Optometric Symposium. Monroe J. Hirsch and Ralph E. Wick, editors. Philadelphia: Chilton, 1963. 434 pp. $17.50.     

(UN)Disciplining the Scholar Activist: Policing the Boundaries of Political Engagement

ALEXANDER HAMILTON'S PAPERS ON PUBLIC CREDIT, COMMERCE AND FINANCE. Edited by Samuel McKee, Jr., with an Introduction by J. Harvie Williams. New York: The Liberal Arts Press, 1957; pp. xiv +304. Cloth $3.50; paper $1.25.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON READER: A COMPILATION OF MATERIALS BY AND COMMENTING ON HAMILTON. Selected and edited by Margaret Esther Hall. New York: Oceana Publications, 1957; pp. 257. Cloth $3.50; paper $1.00.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON IN THE AMERICAN TRADITION. By Louis M. Hacker. New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1957; pp. xi+273. $4.75.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON: YOUTH TO MATURITY 1755–1788. By Broadus Mitchell. New York: Macmillan, 1957; pp. xvi+675. $8.75.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON AND THE FOUNDING OF THE NATION. Edited by Richard B. Morris. New York: The Dial Press, 1957; pp. xxi+617. $7.50.

THE BASIC IDEAS OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON. Edited by Richard B. Morris. New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1957; pp. xxvii+ 451. $0.35.     

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PIONEER WOMEN ORATORS. By Lillian O'Connor. New York: Columbia University Press, 1954; pp. xvii+264. $3.75.

A HISTORY OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. By Clement Eaton. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954; pp. ix+335. $5.50.

LINCOLN'S IMAGERY: A STUDY IN WORD POWER. By Theodore C. Blegen. La Crosse, Wisconsin: Sumac Press, 1954; pp. 32. $2.00.

THE ANTISLAVERY ORIGINS OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. By Jacobus ten‐Broek. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951; pp. 232. $3.00.

ELIHU ROOT AND THE CONSERVATIVE TRADITION. By Richard W. Leopold. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1954; pp. x+222. $3.00.

THE MAN BEHIND ROOSEVELT, THE STORY OF LOUIS McHENRY HOWE. By Lela Stiles. Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1954; x+311. $4.75.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT: THE ORDEAL. By Frank Freidel. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1954; pp. 320. $6.00.

A SHORT HISTORY OF PARLIAMENT, 1295–1642. By Faith Thompson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1953; pp. vi+280. $4.50.

SAMUEL JOHNSON'S PARLIAMENTARY REPORTING: DEBATES IN THE SENATE OF LILLIPUT. By Benjamin Beard Hoover. (University of California Publications, English Studies: VII). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1953; pp. xi+227. Cloth, $2.50; paper, $1.75.

SAVANNAH'S PIONEER THEATRE FROM ITS ORIGINS TO 1810. By J. Max Patrick. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1953; pp. viii+94. $1.75.

TWINS OF GENIUS. By Guy A. Cardwell. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State College Press, 1953; pp. iii+134. $2.50.

THE THEATRE IN THE FIFTIES. By George Jean Nathan. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953; pp. viii+298. $4.50.

THEATRE, ‘53. Edited by John Chapman. New York: Random House, 1953; pp. 564. $5.00.

“MODERNISM”; IN MODERN DRAMA. By Joseph Wood Krutch. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1953; pp. 138. $2.75.

AN INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL AMERICAN PHONETICS. By Charles Van Riper and Dorothy Edna Smith. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1954: pp. vi+152. $2.50.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN ENGLISH. By Stuart Robertson. (Revised by Frederic G. Cassidy). New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1954; pp. viii+469. $7.35.

POWER OF WORDS. By Stuart Chase. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954; pp. xii+308. $3.95.

SPEECH IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. By Mardel Ogilvie. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Company, 1954; pp. vi+318. $4.50.

TOWARD BETTER SPEECH: A Manual for Teachers of All Grades. Prepared for the Board of Education of the City of New York Curriculum Bulletin Series by Grace V. Dooley and Leontine A. Murtha, under the supervision of Letitia Raubicheck. Curriculum Bulletin Series Number 5. New York: Board of Education, 1953; pp. 130. $.40.

SPEECH AND THE DEAF CHILD. By Irene R. Ewing and A. W. G. Ewing. Washington, D. C.: The Volta Bureau, 1954; pp. xii+256.

AUDITORY DISORDERS IN CHILDREN: A MANUAL FOR DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS. By Helmer R. Myklebust. New York: Grune &; Stratton, 1954; pp. 471. $6.00.

PLANNED PREACHING. By George Miles Gibson. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1954; pp. 140. $2.50.

PREACHING. By Walter Russell Bowie. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1954; pp. 217. $2.75.

Edmund H. Linn, Andover Newton Theological School

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONALITY. By Bernard Notcutt. New York: Philosophical Library, 1953; pp. 255. $4.75.     

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OBSCENITY AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION. Edited by Haig A. Bosmajian. New York: Burt Franklin &; Co., 1976; pp. xvii+ 348. $27.50.

A THEORY OF SEMIOTICS. By Umberto Eco. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1976; pp. ix—354. $15.00.

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: PEOPLE IN GROUPS. By Bertram H. Raven and Jeffrey Z. Rubin. New York: John Wiley &; Sons, Inc., 1976; pp. xx+591. $12.95.

TRUMPETS OF GLORY: FOURTH OF JULY ORATIONS, 1786–1861. Edited by Henry A. Hawken. Granby, Connecticut: The Salmon Brook Historical Society, 1976; pp. viii—368. $14.50.

UPTON SINCLAIR: AMERICAN REBEL. By Leon Harris. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1975; pp. x—435. $12.95.

CRITICS ON UPTON SINCLAIR. Edited by Abraham Blinderman. Coral Gables: University of Miami Press, 1975; pp. 128. $3.95.

STANISLAVSKI ON OPERA. By Constantin Stanislavski and Pavel Rumyantsev. Translated and Edited by Elizabeth Reynolds Hap‐good. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1975; pp. vii—374. $18.50.

SCOUNDREL TIME. By Lillian Hellman. Introduction by Garry Wills. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1976; pp. 155. $7.95.

THE NEW WAVE. By James Monaco. Oxford University Press, 1976, pp. 372. $15.95.

LE CINÉMA EN QUESTION. By Jean Collete. Editions du Cerf, 1972. pp. 192. 25 francs.

CINÉMA FRANÇAIS DEPUIS LA NOU‐VELLE VAGUE. By Claire Clouzot. Alliance Francais Press, 1973, pp. 205. 24 francs.

VASILE FLORESCU. RETORICA SI NEORETORIA: GENEZA; EVOLUTIE; PERSPECTIVE. Bucuresti: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste Romania, 1973. Pp. 266. (No price listing available)

PROCESS OF SPEECH: PURITAN RELIGIOUS WRITING AND PARADISE LOST. By Boyd M. Berry. Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1976, pp. xi+305.

LA PRECETIVA RETÓRICA ESPAÑOLA EN EL SIGLO DE ORO. By Antonio Marti. Madrid: Editorial Gredos, 1972; pp. 346. 250 ptas.

LA RÉTORICA ESPAÑOLA DE LOS SIGLOS XVI Y XVII. By Jose Rico Verdu. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1973; pp. xv‐379. 400 ptas.

THE EFFECTS OF MASS COMMUNICATION ON POLITICAL BEHAVIOR. By Sidney Kraus and Dennis Davis. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976; pp. xiii‐308. $16.95; paper $7.95.     

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THE LANGUAGE OF CHANGE: ELEMENTS OF THERAPEUTIC COMMUNICATION. By Paul Watzlawick. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1978; pp. xi + 172. $11.00.

OF SPEECH AND TIME. Edited by Aron W. Siegman and Stanley Feldstein. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1979; pp. x + 230.

LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION IN THE ELDERLY. Edited by Loraine K. Obler and Martin L. Albert. Forward by Carl Eisdorfer. Lexington Books, 1980; pp. xi + 220. $22.95.

CHILDREN'S ORAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS. Edited by W. Patrick Dickson. New York: Academic Press, 1981; pp. xviii + 394. $29.95.

DEVELOPING AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE OF ORGANIZATIONS. By Karlene Roberts, Charles Hulin and Denise Rousseau. San Francisco: Jossey‐Bass, 1978; pp. xiii + 171. $13.95.

POWER AND POLITICS IN ORGANIZATIONS. By Samuel Bacharach and Edward Lawler. San Francisco: Jossey‐Bass, 1980; pp. xiii + 249. $15.95.

POLITICS AS COMMUNICATION. By Robert G. Meadow. Norwood, N.J.: Alex Publishing Co., 1980; pp. xvi + 269. $24.95.

POLITICS, CULTURES AND COMMUNICATION. By Roland S. Homet, Jr. Forward by Joseph E. Slater. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1979; pp. xvi + 109. $19.95.

THE GREAT DEBATES: CARTER VS. FORD, 1976. Edited by Sidney Kraus Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979; pp. xi + 553. Paper $19.50, cloth $29.95.

THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES: MEDIA, ELECTORAL, AND POLICY PERSPECTIVES. Edited by George F. Bishop, Robert G. Meadow, and Marilyn Jackson‐Beeck. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1980; pp. xxii + 324. $25.00.

CARTER VS. FORD: THE COUNTERFEIT DEBATES OF 1976. By Lloyd Bitzer and Theodore Rueter. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1980; pp. xii + 428. Paper $9.95, cloth $27.50.

SUBLIMINAL POLITICS: MYTHS AND MYTHMAKERS IN AMERICA. By Dan Nimmo and James E. Combs. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1980; pp. xiii + 256. Paper $4.95.

PLAYING TO WIN: AN INSIDER'S GUIDE TO POLITICS. By Jeff Greenfield. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980; pp. 286. $11.95.

THE VOICES OF HISTORY: MOMENTS FROM THE GREAT SPEECHES OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and Introduced by Lord George‐Brown. New York: Stein &; Day, 1980; pp. xxiv + 262. $12.95.

PLATO: TRUE AND SOPHISTIC RHETORIC. Edited by Keith V. Erickson. Studies in Classical Antiquity: Band 3. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1979; pp. 427. Paper $68.50.

JUSTICE, LAW, AND ARGUMENT: ESSAYS ON MORAL AND LEGAL REASONING. By Chaim Perelman. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1980; xiii + 181. Paper $10.50, cloth $28.50.

THE ACT OF BEING. By Charles Marowitz. New York: Taplinger, 1978; pp. x + 196. Paper $4.95, cloth $9.95.

METAPHORS WE LIVE BY. By George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980; pp. xiii + 242. $13.50.

MASS COMMUNICATION AND EVERYDAY LIFE: A PERSPECTIVE ON THEORY AND EFFECTS. Dennis K. Davis and Stanley J. Baran. Belmont, Cal.: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1981; pp. v + 217. $7.95.

DISENCHANTMENT: MEANING AND MORALITY IN THE MEDIA. By John M. Phelan. Foreward by George N. Gordon. New York: Hastings House, 1980; pp. 191. Cloth $12.95, paper $8.95.

REVOLUTIONS AND RECONSTRUCTIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. By Mary Hesse. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1980; pp. xxvi + 271. $22.50.

THE NEW RHETORIC AND THE HUMANITIES: ESSAYS ON RHETORIC AND ITS APPLICATIONS. By Chaim Perelman. Introduction by Harold Zyskind. Dordrecht, Boston, and London: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1979; pp. xxiii + 167. Cloth $28.95; Paper $10.55.

WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM: THE GREAT COMMONER. By Peter Douglas Brown. London: George Allen &; Unwin, 1978; pp. 448, $32.50.

THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY. By Margaret Cruikshank. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers/G. K. Hall, 1978; pp. 175. $9.95.

PATRIOT‐HEROES IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA: POLITICAL SYMBOLISM AND CHANGING VALUE OVER THREE CENTURIES. By Peter Karsten. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978; pp. ix + 257. Illus. $25.00.

THE JEFFERSONIAN PERSUASION: EVOLUTION OF A PARTY IDEOLOGY. By Lance Banning. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1978; pp. 307. $15.00; paper $5.95.

HITLER: A STUDY IN PERSONALITY AND POLITICS. By William Carr. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979; x + 200. $12.95.

PRESIDENTIAL POWER: THE POLITICS OF LEADERSHIP FROM FDR TO CARTER. By Richard E. Neustadt. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2nd ed., 1980. pp. 286. $8.20.

JUSTICE DOUGLAS AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Compiled and with an Introduction by Haig Bosmajian. Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1980. pp. xli + 377. $17.50.

COMMUNICATION UNDER LAW Volume I: Free Speech. By Joseph J. Hemmer, Jr. Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1979; pp. ix+307. $15.00.     

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Argumentation and Debating, Revised Edition. By William Trufant Foster, Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917: Cloth pp. IX + 468. $1.40.

Winning Orations, in Intercollegiate Contests in South Dakota. Compiled By O. W. Coursey. Mitchell, S. D.; The Educator Supply Company, 1917. Cloth, pp. 263.

American Ideals, Edited By Norman Foerster and W. W‐pierson, Jr., Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. Cloth, pp. 326. $1.25.

University Debaters Annual. Edited By Edith M. Phelps* New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1917. Cloth pp. 270. $1.80.     

Reviving Rage

Voice and Nerve Control. By Jutta Bell‐Ranske, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1915.

Debaters’ Manual Compiled by Edith M. Phelps. White Plains, N.Y.: H. W. Wilson Co., 1915. Cloth, pp. 172. $1.00

The High School Debate Book. By E. C. Robbins. Chicago: A. C. McClurg &; Co., 1915. Cloth, pp. 229. $1.00.

Debating for Boys. By William Horton Foster. New York: Sturgis &; Walton Co., 1915. Cloth, pp. 175. $1. 00.

University Debaters’ Annual. Edited by Edward C. Mabie. White Plains, N.Y.: H. W. Wilson Co., 1915. Cloth, pp. 534. $1.80.

The Teaching of Oral English. By Emma Miller Bolenius. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1914. Cloth, pp. 214.

The Making of an Oration. By Clark Mills Brink. Chicago: A. C. McClurg &; Co., 1913. Pp. 421. Cloth, $1.50.     

Speech Is Dead; Long Live Speech

EARLY REAGAN: THE RISE TO POWER. By Anne Edwards. New York: William Morrow &; Co, Inc., 1987; pp. 491 + appendices. $21.95.

DOCUMENTARY AND THE MASS MEDIA. Edited by John Corner. Baltimore, MD: Edward Arnold Publishers, 1986; pp. xiv + 178. Paper $19.95.

THE ETHICS OF READING: KANT, de MAN, ELIOT, TROLLOPE, JAMES, AND BENJAMIN. By J. Hillis Miller. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1987; pp. 138. $20.00.

FOUR THEORIES OF MYTH IN TWENTIETH‐CENTURY HISTORY. By Ivan Strenski. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1987; pp. vii + 234. $22.50.

THE RHETORIC OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES: LANGUAGE AND ARGUMENT IN SCHOLARSHIP AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS. Edited by John S. Nelson, Allan Megill, and Donald N. McCloskey. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1987; pp xiii + 445. $24.00.

IMAGING AMERICAN WOMEN: IDEA AND IDEALS IN CULTURAL HISTORY. By Martha Banta. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987; pp. xviii + 844. $50.00.

GLAS. By Jacques Derrida. Translated by John P. Leavey, Jr. and Richard Rand. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986; pp 262. $40.00.

GLASSARY. By John P. Leavey, Jr. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986; pp. 320. $40.00.

THE CULTURE OF CRITICISM AND THE CRITICISM OF CULTURE. By Giles Gunn. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987; pp. xv + 216. $24.95.

MEANING AND MORAL ORDER: EXPLORATIONS IN CULTURAL ANALYSIS. By Robert Withnow. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987; pp. xiii + 435. $38.50.

HOPE AMONG US YET: SOCIAL CRITICISM AND SOCIAL SOLACE IN DEPRESSION AMERICA. By David P. Peeler. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1987; pp. xi + 340. $35.00.

POWER AND COMMUNICATION. By Andrew King. Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press Inc., 1987; pp v + 153. Paper $8.95.

HANDBOOK OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION. Edited by Fredric M. Jablin, Linda L. Putnam, Karlene H. Roberts, and Lyman W. Porter, Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1987; pp. 781. $59.95.

THINGS HIDDEN SINCE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. By René Girard, with Jean‐Michel Oughourlian and Guy Lefort. Trans. by Stephen Bann and Michael Metteer. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1987; pp. 469. $30.00.

MACHIAVELLI AND THE HISTORY OF PRUDENCE. By Eugene Garver. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1987; pp. xiv + 238. $28.50.

LANGUAGE AND TRUTH. By Garth L. Hallett. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988; pp. viii + 234. $21.50.

MARCUS GARVEY LIFE AND LESSONS. Edited by Robert A. Hill and Barbara Bair. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987; pp. xv + 451. $19.95.

GIVING GLORY TO GOD IN APPALACHIA: WORSHIP PRACTICES OF SIX BAPTIST SUBDENOMINATIONS. By Howard Dorgan. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1987; pp. xxvii + 224. $24.95.

LISTENING TO THE CICADAS: A STUDY OF PLATO'S PHAEDRUS. By G.R.F. Ferrari. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987; pp. xiii + 293. $39.50.

ARISTOTLE: THE DESIRE TO UNDERSTAND. By Jonathan Lear. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988; pp. xi + 328. $39.50; paper $12.95.

RENAISSANCE HUMANISM: FOUNDATIONS, FORMS, AND LEGACY. Volume 3: HUMANISM AND THE DISCIPLINES. Ed. Albert Rabil Jr. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988; pp. xvii + 692. $51.95.

RHETORIC: ESSAYS IN INVENTION &; DISCOVERY. By Richard McKeon. Edited with an Introduction by Mark Backman. Woodbridge, CT: Oxbow Press, 1987; pp. xxxi + 220. $25.00.

IN DEFENCE OF RHETORIC. By Brian Vickers. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988; pp. xvii + 508. $79.00.     

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ON DECONSTRUCTION: THEORY AND CRITICISM AFTER STRUCTURALISM. By Jonathan Culler. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982; pp. 307. Paper $8.95.

FEROCIOUS ALPHABETS. By Denis Donoghue. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984; pp. 211. Paper $7.95.

LITERARY THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION. By Terry Eagleton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983; pp. 244. Paper $9.95.

CRITICISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE. By Frank Lentricchia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983; pp. 173. $15.00.

REPRESENTING KENNETH BURKE. Edited by Hayden White and Margaret Brose. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982; pp. 175. $14.95.     

In strictest confidence

ZEN IN THE ART OF RHETORIC: AN INQUIRY INTO COHERENCE. By Mark Lawrence McPhail. New York: State University of New York Press. 1996; pp. v + 220. $19.95

AFTER POSTMODERNISM: RECONSTRUCTING IDEOLOGY CRITIQUE. Ed. By Herbert W. Simons and Michael Billig. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Pub. 1994; pp. x + 258. $69.95; paper $19.95

PRIME‐TIME FEMINISM: TELEVISION, MEDIA CULTURE, AND THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT SINCE 1970. By Bonnie J. Dow. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996; pp. xxvi + 224. $39.95; paper $17.50.

THE CULTURAL PRISON: DISCOURSE, PRISONERS, AND PUNISHMENT. By John M. Sloop. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996; pp. viii + 244. $39.95.

BECOMING CITIZENS IN THE AGE OF TELEVISION: HOW AMERICANS CHALLENGED THE MEDIA AND SEIZED INITIATIVE DURING THE IRAN‐CONTRA DEBATE. By David P. Thelen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. pp. x + 244. $55.00; paper $14.95.

RAPE ON TRIAL: HOW THE MASS MEDIA CONSTRUCT LEGAL REFORM AND SOCIAL CHANGE. By Lisa M. Cuklanz. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996; pp. vii + 135. $28.95; paper $12.95.

LAW'S STORIES: NARRATIVE AND RHETORIC IN THE LAW. Edited by Peter Brooks and Paul Gewirtz. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996; pp. vii + 290. $26.00.

POST‐REALISM: THE RHETORICAL TURN IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. Edited by Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1996; pp. vii + 429. $35.95; paper $24.95.

DEFINING SCIENCE: A RHETORIC OF DEMARCATION. By Charles Alan Taylor. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996; pp vii + 292. $53.00; paper $22.95.

IM/PARTIAL SCIENCE: GENDER IDEOLOGY IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. By Bonnie B. Spanier. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1995; pp. xi + 207. $29.95; paper $14.95.

KENNETH BURKE: RHETORIC, SUBJECTIVITY, POSTMODERNISM. By Robert Wess. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996; pp. xxi + 262. $54.95; paper $18.95.

THE GIFT OF DEATH. By Jacques Derrida. Trans. David Wills. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995; $18.95.

AUGUSTINE AND THE LIMITS OF POLITICS. By Jean Bethke Elshtain. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995; pp. xiv + 143. $21.95.

RHETORIC, SOPHISTRY, PRAGMATISM. Edited by Steven Mailloux. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995; pp.xii + 251. $54.95; paper $16.95.

THE RHETORIC OF REASON: WRITING AND THE ATTRACTIONS OF ARGUMENT. By James Crosswhite. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. pp. xii + 329. $58.00; paper $24.95

ESSAYS ON ARISTOTLE'S RHETORIC. Edited by Amélie Oksenberg Rorty. Philosophical Traditions 6. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1996; pp. xxiii + 441. $50.00; paper $19.95.

RHETORIC AS PEDAGOGY: ITS HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, AND PRACTICE; ESSAYS IN HONOR OF JAMES J. MURPHY. Edited by Winifred Bryan Homer and Michael Leff. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, 1995; pp. xvi + 337. $69.95; paper $34.50.

VOICING AMERICA: LANGUAGE, LITERARY FORM, AND THE ORIGINS OF THE UNITED STATES. By Christopher Looby. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996; pp. xi + 287. $29.95.

THE LANGUAGE OF DEMOCRACY: POLITICAL RHETORIC IN THE UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN, 1790–1900. By Andrew W. Robertson. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1995; pp. xv + 264. $35.00.

THE CONUNDRUM OF CLASS: PUBLIC DISCOURSE ON THE SOCIAL ORDER IN AMERICA. By Martin J. Burke. Chicago &; London: The University of Chicago Press, 1995; pp. xvii + 303. $47.50; paper $16.95.

“IN A PERILOUS HOUR”: THE PUBLIC ADDRESS OFJOHN F. KENNEDY. By Steven R. Goldzwig and George N. Dionisopoulos. Westport: Greenwood Publishing, 1995; pp. xv + 219. $59.95.

THE END OF VICTORY CULTURE: COLD WAR AMERICA AND THE DISILLUSIONING OF A GENERATION. By Tom Engelhardt. New York: Basic Books, 1995; pp. iii + 351. $29.95; paper, $14.00.

I'VE GOT THE LIGHT OF FREEDOM: THE ORGANIZING TRADITION AND THE MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM STRUGGLE. By Charles M. Payne. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995; pp. xiii + 525. $28.00; paper $16.95.

AFRICAN‐AMERICAN ORATORS: A BIO‐CRITICAL SOURCEBOOK. Edited by Richard W. Leeman. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996; pp. xxv + 452. $95.00.     

The Politics of Responsibility

BEYOND FEMINIST AESTHETICS: FEMINIST LITERATURE AND SOCIAL CHANGE. By Rita Felski. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989; pp. 222. $13.50.

THE BLACK PUBLIC SPHERE: A PUBLIC CULTURE BOOK. Edited by The Black Public Sphere Collective. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995; pp. 350. $17.95.

HABERMAS AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE. Edited by Craig Calhoun. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992; pp. x + 498. $19.95.

LIBERALISM AND THE PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE: A NEW RHETORIC FOR MODERN DEMOCRACY. By Charles Willard. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1996; pp. x + 384. $17.95.

NUMBERED VOICES: HOW OPINION POLLING HAS SHAPED AMERICAN POLITICS. By Susan Herbst. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1993; pp. xi‐227. $24.95; paper $14.95.

THE PHANTOM PUBLIC SPHERE. Edited by Bruce Robbins. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993; pp. xxvi‐310. $21.95.

PUBLIC SPHERE AND EXPERIENCE: TOWARD AN ANALYSIS OF THE BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIAN PUBLIC SPHERE. By Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge. Translated by Peter Labanyi, Jamie Owen Daniel, and Assenka Oksiloff. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993; pp. xli‐305. $44.95     

Outside Reviewers for Volume 95 of the Quarterly Journal of Speech

BLINDNESS AND INSIGHT: ESSAYS IN THE RHETORIC OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM. By Paul de Man. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1971, 1983 (2nd rev. ed.); pp. 308. $29.50; paper $12.95.

ALLEGORIES OF READING: FIGURAL LANGUAGE IN ROUSSEAU, NIETZSCHE, RILKE, AND PROUST. By Paul de Man. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979; pp. 305. paper $9.95.

THE RHETORIC OF ROMANTICISM. By Paul de Man. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984; pp. 327. $28.00; paper $14.50.

THE RESISTANCE TO THEORY. By Paul de Man. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986; pp. 137. $25.00; paper $10.95.

THE LESSON OF PAUL DE MAN. Edited by Peter Brooks, Shoshana Felman, and J. Hillis Miller. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985; pp. 333. paper $12.95.     

Periodicals

SELECTED PAPERS OF EMIL FROESCHELS 1940–1964. Introduction by H. Beebe. Amsterdam: North‐Holland, 1964; pp. x+232. Paper $5.60.

CHILDHOOD APHASIA AND BRAIN DAMAGE: A DEFINITION. Edited by Sheldon R. Rappaport. Narberth, Pa.: Livingston, 1965; pp. 128. Paper $3.00.

CHILDHOOD APHASIA AND BRAIN DAMAGE: DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS. Edited by Sheldon R. Rappaport. Narberth, Pa.: Livingston, 1965; pp. 164. Paper $3.00.

THE EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF MEANING. By Marjorie B. Creelman. New York: Springer, 1966; pp. xi+219+unpaged Indexes. $6.75.

HUMAN MOTIVATION: A SYMPOSIUM. 1965. Edited by Marshall R. Jones. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965; pp. vii+87. $4.25.

NEBRASKA SYMPOSIUM ON MOTIVATION: 1965. Edited by David Levine. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965; pp. xi+344. S5.50; paper $2.50.

THE PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH. By Daniel Jones. (Fourth edition, revised and enlarged.) New York: Cambridge University Press, 1966; pp. xxiv+223. Paper $1.95.

RULES OF PRONUNCIATION FOR THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. By Axel Wijk. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966; pp. 160. Paper 8/6.

THE COLLOQUIAL STYLE IN AMERICA. By Richard Bridgman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966; pp. vii+254. $6.50.

CRITICAL DIMENSIONS: THE ART OF PUBLIC ADDRESS CRITICISM. By Anthony Hillbruner. Random House, 1966; pp. 180. Paper $1.95.

WILLIAM PENN, THE POLITICIAN: HIS RELATIONS WITH THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT. By Joseph E. Illick. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1965; pp. x+267. $5.75.

ADAMS AND JEFFERSON: THE STORY OF A FRIENDSHIP. By John Murray Allison. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966; pp. xii+349. $4.95.

PROHIBITION AND POLITICS: TURBULENT DECADES IN TENNESSEE, 1885–1920. By Paul E. Isaac. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1965; pp. xi+301. $6.00.

GEORGE W. NORRIS: GENTLE KNIGHT OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY. By Norman L. Zucker. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1966; pp. x+186. $5.00.

THE IRISH AND IRISH POLITICIANS. By Edward M. Levine. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1966; pp. xi+241. $6.00.

THE PAPERS OF WOODROW WILSON, Vol. I: 1856–1880. Edited by Arthur S. Link. Foreword by Raymond B. Fosdick. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1966; pp. xxviii+715. $15.00.

THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF WOOD‐ROW WILSON. Edited by E. David Cronon. Indianapolis: Bobbs‐Merrill, 1965; pp. xcv+ 559. Paper $3.45.

DIONYSUS: MYTH AND CULT. By Walter F. Otto. Translated with an Introduction by Robert B. Palmer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1965; pp. xxi+243. $6.50.

SOCRATES AND ARISTOPHANES. By Leo Strauss. New York: Basic Books, 1966; pp. 320+Index. $8.50.

TO CRITICIZE THE CRITIC. By T. S. Eliot. New York: Farrar, Straus &; Giroux, 1965; pp. 189. $4.95.

THE CHOICES OF CRITICISM. By William Chace Greene. Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1965; pp. vi+207. $7.50.

THE DYSKOLOS OF MENANDER. Edited by E. W. Handley. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1965; pp. x+323. $10.00.

THE PLAY CALLED CORPUS CHRISTI. By V. A. Kolve. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1966; pp. viii+337. $8.50.

THE SHAKESPEARE INSET: WORD AND PICTURE. By Francis Berry. New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1965; pp. x+173. $5.75.

ESSAYS ON SHAKESPEARE. Edited by Gerald W. Chapman. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1966; pp. viii+176. $5.00.

ESSAYS ON SHAKESPEARE. Edited by Gordon Ross Smith. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1965; pp. 249. $6.00.

DUALITIES IN SHAKESPEARE. By Marion Bodwell Smith. University of Toronto Press, 1966; pp. vi+252. $6.50.

SHAKESPEARE: TIME AND CONSCIENCE. By Grigori Kozinstev. Translated by Joyce Vining. New York: Hill &; Wang, 1966; pp. 276. $5.95.

KING LEAR IN OUR TIME. By Maynard Mack. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965; pp. viii+117+unpaged Index. $3.75.

METHOD AND MEANING IN JONSON'S MASQUES. By John C. Meagher. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1966; pp. vii+214. $6.50.

THE IRISH STAGE IN THE COUNTY TOWNS, 1720–1800. By William Smith Clark. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965; pp. xii+405. $11.20.

JAMES BRIDIE: CLOWN AND PHILOSOPHER. By Helen L. Luyben. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965; pp. 180. $5.00.

BEHIND SPANISH AMERICAN FOOTLIGHTS. By Willis Knapp Jones. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966; pp. xvi+609. $9–50.

FOLK THEATRE OF INDIA. By Balwant Gargi. Foreword by Millard B. Rogers. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1966; pp. x+217. $8.95.

JODISCHES THEATER IN NAZIDEUTSCH‐LAND. By Herbert Freeden. Tubingen, Germany: J. C. B. Mohr, 1964; pp. x+184. $6.25.

MODERN TRAGICOMEDY: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE NATURE OF THE GENRE. By Karl S. Guthke. New York: Random House, 1966; pp. xv+205. Paper $1.95.

MODERN TRAGEDY. By Raymond Williams. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1966; pp. 208. $5.50.

THE SERPENT'S EYE: SHAW AND THE CINEMA. By Donald P. Costello. Foreword by Cecil Lewis. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1965; pp. xxi+2og. $6.50.

THE JAPANESE MOVIE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY. By Donald Richie. Preface by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Rutland, Vt.: Japan Publications Trading Co., 1956; pp. 200. $11.00.

PERFORMING ARTS—THE ECONOMIC DILEMMA. By William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen. New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 1966; pp. xvi+582. $7.50.     

The central task in teaching speech

SCIENCE, REASON, AND RHETORIC. Edited by Henry Krips, J.E. McGuire, and Trevor Melia. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995; pp. vii+322. $49.95

THE RHETORIC OF EUGENICS IN ANGLO‐AMERICAN THOUGHT. By Marouf A. Hasian, Jr. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1996; pp. x+265. $40.00.

DECONSTRUCTING COMMUNICATION: REPRESENTATION, SUBJECT, AND ECONOMIES OF EXCHANGE. By Briankle G. Chang. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996; pp. xvii +258. $57.95; paper $22.95.

CONTAINMENT CULTURE: AMERICAN NARRATIVES, POSTMODERNISM, AND THE ATOMIC AGE. By Alan Nadel. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995; pp. ix + 332. $49.95; paper $17.95.

CONSTITUTING AMERICANS: CULTURAL ANXIETY AND NARRATIVE FORM. By Priscilla Wald. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995; pp. ix+390. $56.95; paper $ 17.95.

CONTESTED BOUNDARIES: ITINERANCY AND THE RESHAPING OF THE COLONIAL AMERICAN RELIGIOUS WORLD. By Timothy D. Hall. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994; pp. x + 196. $39.95; paper $16.95.

TELEVISION FORM AND PUBLIC ADDRESS. By John Corner. New York: Edward Arnold and St. Martin's Press, 1995; pp. 200. $59.95; paper $18.95.

THE IRONY OF FREE SPEECH. By Owen M. Fiss. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996; pp. 98. $18.95.

GOING NEGATIVE: HOW POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENTS SHRINK AND POLARIZE THE ELECTORATE. By Stephen Ansolabehere and Shanto Iyengar. New York: The Free Press, 1995; pp. 243. $24.00.

ARS POETRIAE: RHETORICAL AND GRAMMATICAL INVENTION AT THE MARGIN OF LITERACY. By William M. Purcell. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1996; pp. 193. $34.95

COMPUTER NETWORKING AND SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION IN THE TWENTY‐FIRST CENTURY UNIVERSITY. Edited by Teresa M. Harrison and Timothy Stephen. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996; pp. xii + 468. $59.50; paper $ 19.95.

EVALUATING WOMEN'S HEALTH MESSAGES: A RESOURCE BOOK. Edited by Roxanne Louiselle Parrott and Celeste Michelle Condit. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996; xiv + 445. $69.95; paper $32.95.

RELATING: DIALOGUES AND DIALECTICS. By Leslie A. Baxter and Barbara M. Montgomery. New York: Guilford Press, 1996; pp. xv + 285. $42.00; paper $18.95.

THE ART OF FRAMING: MANAGING THE LANGUAGE OF LEADERSHIP. By Gail T. Fairhurst and Robert A. Sarr. San Francisco: Jossey‐Bass, 1996; pp. xviii + 213. $25.00.

FRAME REFLECTION: TOWARD THE RESOLUTION OF INTRACTABLE POLICY CONTROVERSIES. By Donald A. Schon and Martin Rein. New York: Basic Books, 1994; pp. xv + 247. $30.00; paper $15.00.

CESAR CHAVEZ: A TRIUMPH OF SPIRIT. By Richard Griswold del Castillo and Richard A. Garcia. The Oklahoma Western Biographies Series, Vol. 2. Preface By Richard W. Etulain. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995; pp. xvii + 206. $19.95.