ISBN10: 0313290407, ISBN13: 9780313290404, [publisher: Greenwood Press, Westport, CT.] Hardcover First Edition xiv + 204 pp., notes, bib., index. Surrogate Spokesman for the Disaffected. Critical Analysis, Collected Speeches. Part of the Great American Orators series. An ex-lib. copy w/stampings & markings inside but no markings on the green cloth hard cover binding. There Is a "discard" stamp on the top page edge & a faint lib. stamp on the fore edge o/w a clean copy in near fine cond.
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Westport, CT Greenwood 1998 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 224 p. Great American Orators, 28.

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ISBN10: 0313290407, ISBN13: 9780313290404, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Westport] Hardcover Hardcover. As Americans moved from farms and small towns to large cities, they tended to lose a hallmark of their earlier life: comparatively direct participation in the discourse of pragmatic affairs. The ubiquitous radio, which became a primary medium of communication during the Great Depression, tended to make Americans listeners more than speakers about important issues. Nevertheless, as the economic catastrophe of the time evoked desires in people to express their hopes and fears for the future, Americans nevertheless tended to be reticent. They instead bestowed leadership on speakers who articulated those hopes and fears on their behalfparticularly orators who effectively utilized radio. Possessed with the ability to deliver speeches exceptionally well and to phrase ideas so eloquently as to be admired by listeners, Father Charles E. Coughlin emerged as that surrogate spokesperson for many Americans. Moreover, because the medium of radio endowed his discourse with a credibility enhanced by his own ethos, he emerged as a persuader who fulfilled the mass media role known as opinion leadership. He also capitalized on the inherent advantages of orality as a significant factor that influenced how people responded to the myriad messages of the vast communication mosaic in which Americans lived at the onset of the electronic age. Father Coughlin exemplifies that ...

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