Gregg Phifer

Two inaugurals: A second look

Bert E. Bradley, Auburn University, prepared the first look: “Jefferson and Reagan: The Rhetoric of Two Inaugurals,” SSCJ, 48 (Winter, 1983), 119–36. This essay is intended as a rebuttal to that first look.

“Not for the purpose of making a speech:” Andrew Johnson's swing around the circle

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New book in review

THE IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. By Bernard Bailyn. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967; pp. xiii+335.

What do beginning college speech texts say about stage fright

5.95. THE MENNONITE CHURCH IN AMERICA, SOMETIMES CALLED OLD MENNONITES. By John C. Wenger. Introduction by Harold S. Bender. (Mennonite History, Vol. II.) Scottdale, Pa.: Herald, 1966; pp. 384.

An experiment comparing discussion with debate

7.95. MENNONITES IN THE CONFEDERACY: A STUDY IN CIVIL WAR PACIFISM. By Samuel Horst. Scottdale, Pa.: Herald, 1967; pp. 148.

Edith Bolling Wilson: Gatekeeper extraordinary

3.00. ROBERT E. LEE: THE COMPLETE MAN, 1861–1870. By Margaret Sanborn. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1967; pp. xiv+430.

PROPAGANDA AND CRITICAL LISTENING

8.95. THE PAPERS OF ULYSSES S. GRANT: VOLUME I, 1837–1861. Edited by John Y. Simon. Foreword by Ralph G. Newman. Prefaces by Bruce Catton and Allan Nevins. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967; pp. xxxix+458.

Andrew Johnson at Cleveland and St. Louis, 1866: A study in textual authenticity

15.00. THE PURITAN ETHIC AND WOMAN SUFFRAGE. By Alan P. Grimes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967; pp. xiii+159.

Censoring (‘Editing’) the Comics:

4.75. CHARLES EVANS HUGHES: POLITICS AND REFORM IN NEW YORK, 1905–1910. By Robert R....