| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Book Review

Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America. By Sandra M. Gustafson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xxviii, 287 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2575-1. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4888-3.)

Eloquence Is Power joins recent work whose authors investigate the distinctions American colonists made between written and spoken language. This is scholarship—most prominently, Jay Fliegelman's Declaring Independence (1993), most recently, Nancy Ruttenburg's Democratic Personality (1998)—in which the transformations of 1776, 1787, and 1800 loom large, for the emergence in politics of opposing styles of leadership marks the most important legacy of whether written or spoken language was more eloquent and, by implication, powerful. . . .

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