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Title

  • Living orators in America.

Names

  • Magoon, Elias Lyman.

Created / Published

  • New York, Baker and Scribner, 1849.

Contents

  • Daniel Webster, the logician.--Edward Everett, the rhetorician.--Henry Clay, the politician.--John C. Calhoun, the metaphysician.--George McDuffle, the impetuous.--Lewis Cass, the courteous.--Thomas H. Benton, the magisterial.--William C. Preston, the inspired declaimer.--Thomas Corwin, the natural orator.

Headings

  • -  Orators--United States--Biography
  • -  Oratory--United States
  • -  Webster, Daniel,--1782-1852
  • -  Everett, Edward,--1794-1865
  • -  Clay, Henry,--1777-1852
  • -  Calhoun, John C.--(John Caldwell),--1782-1850
  • -  McDuffle, George,--1788-1851
  • -  Cass, Lewis,--1782-1866
  • -  Benton, Thomas Hart,--1782-1858
  • -  Preston, William C.--(William Campbell),--1794-1860
  • -  Corwin, Thomas,--1794-1865

Notes

  • -  Also available in digital form.

Medium

  • 3 p. l., v-ix, 462 p. front., ports. 19 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • E339 .M18

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 05040582

OCLC Number

  • 4508912

Online Format

  • online text
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  • pdf

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