The Selected Writings of John Witherspoon (Landmarks in Rhetoric and Public Address)
by John Witherspoon 
, Thomas P. Miller (Editor)
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Considered the first significant teacher of rhetoric in America, John Witherspoon also introduced Scottish moral philosophy to this country and as president of Princeton University reformed the curriculum to give emphasis to both studies.He was an active pamphleteer on religious and political issues and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.Tags
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John Witherspoon has a Legacy Library. Legacy libraries are the personal libraries of famous readers, entered by LibraryThing members from the Legacy Libraries group.
Thomas P. Miller is associate provost for faculty affairs at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He is the author of The Formation of College English: Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the British Cultural Provinces, a winner of the Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize.
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- 973.3 — History & geography History of North America United States Revolutionary War (1775-89)
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- E302 .W47 .A25 — History of the United States United States Revolution to the Civil War, 1775/1783-1861 Biography (Late eighteenth century)
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