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This wide ranging study integrates a number of important areas of study: popular culture, American history, and musical theatre among others. It uses connections among those disciplines to show some important ways in which political issues that engross our country are being handled rhetorically through cultural artifacts. This is an important, integrative book. --- Barry Brummett, The University of Texas at Austin -- Barry Brummett, University of Texas at Austin ""The Revolutionary Rhetoric of Hamilton is an indispensable resource for understanding the multiple important messages in the greatest musical of our time, Hamilton. In revealing the meaning of Hamilton, the chapters in the book also reveal a great deal about historical and contemporary popular and political culture."" ---- Robert C. Rowland, University of Kansas -- Robert C. Rowland, The University of Kansas “This edited collection grounds its chapters in a larger argument about the importance of rhetoric and popular culture. It is essential reading for those interested in history, politics, identity, and entertainment, and makes an important contribution especially to the ongoing work on one of Broadway’s biggest hits.” --- Ryan Neville-Shepard, University of Arkansas -- Ryan Neville-Shepard

This wide ranging study integrates a number of important areas of study: popular culture, American history, and musical theatre among others. It uses connections among those disciplines to show some important ways in which political issues that engross our country are being handled rhetorically through cultural artifacts. This is an important, integrative book. --- Barry Brummett, The University of Texas at Austin -- Barry Brummett, University of Texas at Austin The Revolutionary Rhetoric of Hamilton is an indispensable resource for understanding the multiple important messages in the greatest musical of our time, Hamilton. In revealing the meaning of Hamilton, the chapters in the book also reveal a great deal about historical and contemporary popular and political culture. ---- Robert C. Rowland, University of Kansas -- Robert C. Rowland, The University of Kansas This edited collection grounds its chapters in a larger argument about the importance of rhetoric and popular culture. It is essential reading for those interested in history, politics, identity, and entertainment, and makes an important contribution especially to the ongoing work on one of Broadway's biggest hits. --- Ryan Neville-Shepard, University of Arkansas -- Ryan Neville-Shepard

"This wide ranging study integrates a number of important areas of study: popular culture, American history, and musical theatre among others. It uses connections among those disciplines to show some important ways in which political issues that engross our country are being handled rhetorically through cultural artifacts. This is an important, integrative book. --- Barry Brummett, The University of Texas at Austin -- Barry Brummett, University of Texas at Austin ""The Revolutionary Rhetoric of Hamilton is an indispensable resource for understanding the multiple important messages in the greatest musical of our time, Hamilton. In revealing the meaning of Hamilton, the chapters in the book also reveal a great deal about historical and contemporary popular and political culture."" ---- Robert C. Rowland, University of Kansas -- Robert C. Rowland, The University of Kansas “This edited collection grounds its chapters in a larger argument about the importance of rhetoric and popular culture. It is essential reading for those interested in history, politics, identity, and entertainment, and makes an important contribution especially to the ongoing work on one of Broadway’s biggest hits.” --- Ryan Neville-Shepard, University of Arkansas -- Ryan Neville-Shepard"

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Luke Winslow is assistant professor of rhetorical studies in the Department of Communication at Baylor University. Nancy J. Legge is professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and Persuasion at Idaho State University. Jacob Justice is assistant professor of speech communication and the director of forensics in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi.

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