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""Scholars of rhetoric will find this book engaging and informative, as will cultural and educational historians of the colonial era. It deserves close reading. Explanatory footnotes and a useful bibliography are additional merits of this extensively researched and carefully argued monograph.""--Journal of American History I read this book with unqualified enthusiasm. Longaker's work is extraordinarily well written, displays solid primary research, and substantially advances both our understanding of antebellum American rhetorical theory/pedagogy and our understanding of civic republicanism--James Arnt Aune, author of Rhetoric and Marxism Longaker's book is clearly an important contribution to our understanding of the rhetorical education of the republican era. Setting aside the notion of a republican rhetorical monolith, he opens up a broad range of issues for future scholars to consider. Rhetoric and the Republic will be a standard text for those scholars to consult.""--Rhetorical Review

Scholars of rhetoric will find this book engaging and informative, as will cultural and educational historians of the colonial era. It deserves close reading. Explanatory footnotes and a useful bibliography are additional merits of this extensively researched and carefully argued monograph. --Journal of American History I read this book with unqualified enthusiasm. Longaker's work is extraordinarily well written, displays solid primary research, and substantially advances both our understanding of antebellum American rhetorical theory/pedagogy and our understanding of civic republicanism--James Arnt Aune, author of Rhetoric and Marxism Longaker's book is clearly an important contribution to our understanding of the rhetorical education of the republican era. Setting aside the notion of a republican rhetorical monolith, he opens up a broad range of issues for future scholars to consider. Rhetoric and the Republic will be a standard text for those scholars to consult. --Rhetorical Review

Scholars of rhetoric will find this book engaging and informative, as will cultural and educational historians of the colonial era. It deserves close reading. Explanatory footnotes and a useful bibliography are additional merits of this extensively researched and carefully argued monograph. -- Journal of American History

Longaker's book is clearly an important contribution to our understanding of the rhetorical education of the republican era. Setting aside the notion of a republican rhetorical monolith, he opens up a broad range of issues for future scholars to consider. Rhetoric and the Republic will be a standard text for those scholars to consult. --Rhetorical Review Scholars of rhetoric will find this book engaging and informative, as will cultural and educational historians of the colonial era. It deserves close reading. Explanatory footnotes and a useful bibliography are additional merits of this extensively researched and carefully argued monograph. --Journal of American History I read this book with unqualified enthusiasm. Longaker's work is extraordinarily well written, displays solid primary research, and substantially advances both our understanding of antebellum American rhetorical theory/pedagogy and our understanding of civic republicanism--James Arnt Aune, author of Rhetoric and Marxism

Scholars of rhetoric will find this book engaging and informative, as will cultural and educational historians of the colonial era. It deserves close reading. Explanatory footnotes and a useful bibliography are additional merits of this extensively researched and carefully argued monograph. --Journal of American History Longaker's book is clearly an important contribution to our understanding of the rhetorical education of the republican era. Setting aside the notion of a republican rhetorical monolith, he opens up a broad range of issues for future scholars to consider. Rhetoric and the Republic will be a standard text for those scholars to consult. --Rhetorical Review I read this book with unqualified enthusiasm. Longaker's work is extraordinarily well written, displays solid primary research, and substantially advances both our understanding of antebellum American rhetorical theory/pedagogy and our understanding of civic republicanism--James Arnt Aune, author of Rhetoric and Marxism

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Mark Garrett Longaker is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. His articles, book reviews, and essays have appeared in Rhetorica, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, Kenneth Burke Journal, Written Communication, New England Quarterly, and College English.

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