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Canada and the United States

Stephen Howard Browne. Jefferson's Call for Nationhood: The First Inaugural Address. (Library of Presidential Rhetoric.) College Station: Texas A & M University Press. 2003. Pp. xvii, 155. Cloth $29.95, paper $14.95.

Americans, hungry for words, ideals, and guidance from the nation's real and imagined past, have, from the day Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address was delivered and then rapidly printed in newspapers, magazines, and satin broadsides, elevated this masterful speech to iconic status. John West Butler, a Federalist from Annapolis, Maryland, wrote to Jefferson in praise of the "wise, virtuous, and liberal conduct" that his "'Address' promised in such clear, nervous, and elegant language." Successive generations of American leaders—Whigs, Progressives, Democrats, and Republicans—have sought to bolster their own legitimacy by appealing to Jefferson's mantle and eloquent language.

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