1. Eloquence: Why?
2. Eloquence: When and Where?
3. Eloquence: How?
4. Cultural Resonance
5. Personal Investment
6. Poetic Imagination
7. Eloquence Assessed
8. Eloquence Tomorrow
Appendix: "Importance" Versus "Eloquence" Rankings for Twentieth-Century Speeches
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Roderick P. Hart holds the Shivers Chair in Communication and is professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a fellow of the International Communication Association, a distinguished scholar of the National Communication Association, and the recipient of the Murray Edelman Career Award from the American Political Science Association. Hart is the author or editor of eighteen books, including most recently Trump and Us: What He Says and Why People Listen (2020) and Civic Hope: How Ordinary Americans Keep Democracy Alive (2018).