The Columbian Orator by Blight, David W.
The Columbian Orator by Blight, David W.

The Columbian Orator

An 1797 publication of Enlightenment era thought, read by virtually every American schoolboy in the early 19th...
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Author: David W. Blight
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Language: English
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The Columbian Orator by Blight, David W.

The Columbian Orator

$89.00
The Columbian Orator by Blight, David W.

The Columbian Orator

$89.00
Author: David W. Blight
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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An 1797 publication of Enlightenment era thought, read by virtually every American schoolboy in the early 19th century

First published in 1797, The Columbian Orator helped shape the American mind for the next half century, going through some 23 editions and totaling 200,000 copies in sales. The book was read by virtually every American schoolboy in the first half of the 19th century. As a slave youth, Frederick Douglass owned just one book, and read it frequently, referring to it as a gem and his rich treasure.

The Columbian Orator presents 84 selections, most of which are notable examples of oratory on such subjects as nationalism, religious faith, individual liberty, freedom, and slavery, including pieces by Washington, Franklin, Milton, Socrates, and Cicero, as well as heroic poetry and dramatic dialogues. Augmenting these is an essay on effective public speaking which influenced Abraham Lincoln as a young politician.

As America experiences a resurgence of interest in the art of debating and oratory, The Columbian Orator--whether as historical artifact or contemporary guidebook--is one of those rare books to be valued for what it meant in its own time, and for how its ideas have endured. Above all, this book is a remarkable compilation of Enlightenment era thought and language that has stood the test of time.

Author: David W. Blight
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 02/01/1998
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.03h x 6.11w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780814713235

About the Author
Blight, David W.: - Professor of History and Black Studies at Amherst College, David W. Blight is the author of Fredrick Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee and editor of the Bedford Books editions of Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, An American Slave and W. E. B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk.
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