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The golden age of American oratory /

The rhetoric of many great speakers from this era of oratorial culture are featured, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglas, Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, Mary Livermore, William Jennings Bryan and others. It recounts an important social movement in American history, highlighting the...

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Corporate Author:	Educational Video Group
Format:	Video VHS
Language:	English
Published:	Greenwood, Ind. : Educational Video Group, [1998]
Subjects:	Lyceums > United States > History. Chautauquas > History. Oratory > United States > History. United States > Social life and customs > 1783-1865. United States > Social life and customs > 1865-1918.

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