Rhetoric & Public Affairs Mar 2013

On Martin Luther King Jr. and the Landscape of Civil Rights Rhetoric

Keith D. Miller

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Book Review| March 01 2013 On Martin Luther King Jr. and the Landscape of Civil Rights Rhetoric Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech That Transformed a Nation. By Clarence Jones and Stuart Connelly. New York: Palgrave, 2011; pp. 224. $22.00 cloth; $14.00 paperKing's Dream: The Legacy of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" Speech. By Eric Sundquist. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009; pp. viii + 295. $14.00 paper"Making a Way out of No Way": Martin Luther King's Proverbial Rhetoric. By Wolfgang Mieder. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2010; pp. xiv + 551. $169.95 clothMartin Luther King and the Rhetoric of Freedom: The Exodus Narrative in America's Struggle for Civil Rights. By Gary Selby. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2008; pp. xii + 217. $34.95 paperThe Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr. By Jonathan Rieder. Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2008; pp. xi + 394. $18.95 paper Keith D. Miller Keith D. Miller Keith D. Miller is Professor of English at Arizona State University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2013) 16 (1): 167–184. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.1.0167 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Keith D. Miller; On Martin Luther King Jr. and the Landscape of Civil Rights Rhetoric. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 March 2013; 16 (1): 167–184. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.1.0167 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2013 Michigan State University Board of Trustees2013 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

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