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Margaret Chase Smith Marlene B. Vallin

Margaret Chase Smith By Marlene B. Vallin

Margaret Chase Smith by Marlene B. Vallin

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The selected speeches of Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine made throughout her 32 year career in the U.S. Congress are critically analyzed in this rhetorical study. Thus this work will be of interest to students and scholars of U.S. politics, communications, and women's studies.

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Margaret Chase Smith: Model Public Servant by Marlene B. Vallin

The selected speeches of Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine made throughout her 32 year career in the U.S. Congress are critically analyzed in this rhetorical study. The inquiry focuses on the factors of her political persona that garnered her the support of her constituents and the respect of her colleagues. The chapters are each titled with a segment of her political identityan American, a Republican, and a women. Thus this work will be of interest to students and scholars of U.S. politics, communications, and women's studies. In addition, this popular political figure should be of interest to readers who want to learn more about the first female U.S. Senator.

About Marlene B. Vallin

MARLENE BOYD VALLIN is Associate Professor of Speech Communication at Pennsylvania State University, Berks-Lehigh Valley College. She is the author of another volume in the Great American Orators series: Mark Twain: Protaganist for the Popular Culture (Greenwood, 1992).

Table of Contents

Series Foreword by Bernard K. Duffy and Halford R. Ryan Foreword by Halford R. Ryan Preface Critical Analysis Margaret Chase Smith: A Great American Orator "I Speak as an American" "I Speak as a United States Senator" "I Speak as a Woman" "I Speak as a Republican Collected Speeches "Declaration of Conscience I" "Declaration of Conscience II" "Nuclear Credibility" (September 21, 1961) "Nuclear Credibility" (September 21, 1962) "The Kennedy Twist" "Nuclear Test Ban Treaty" "Women's Progress" "Women, the Key Individual of Our Democracy" "Women and Leadership" "No Place for a Woman" "Answer to a Smear" "Election Eve Radio Speech" "Presidential Candidacy Announcement" "Anti-ABM" "Response to Professor Fullam's 'Are You Proud?' Speech" "Celebrating for Fortieth Anniversary" "I Speak As A Woman" Chronology of Significant Speaking Events Bibliography Index

Additional information

NPB9780313291630
9780313291630
0313291632
Margaret Chase Smith: Model Public Servant by Marlene B. Vallin
Marlene B. Vallin
Great American Orators
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
1998-06-10
264
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