The political style of conspiracy

Description:

"This book analyzes the concept and reality of the "slave power" in the rhetorical discourse of the mid-nineteenth-century, in particular the speeches and writing of politicians Salmon P. Chase, Charles Sumner, and Abraham Lincoln. By examining their mainstream texts, Pfau reveals that, in addition to the "paranoid style" of conspiracy rhetoric that inhabits the margins of political life, Lincoln, Chase, and Sumner also engaged in a distinctive form of conspiracy rhetoric that is often found at the center of mainstream American society and politics."--Jacket.

subjects: Conspiracies,  Discourse analysis,  English language,  History,  Language,  Political aspects of Rhetoric,  Political aspects of Slavery,  Political culture,  Politics and government,  Rhetoric,  Slavery,  Political aspects

People: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865),  Charles Sumner (1811-1874),  Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873)

Places: United States

Times: 1815-1861,  19th century