Book reviews

THE PEOPLE'S VOICE: THE ORATOR IN AMERICAN SOCIETY. By Barnet Baskerville. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1979; pp. 259. $14.50.

ORATORY IN THE NEW SOUTH. Edited by Waldo W. Braden. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1979; pp. 286. $17.50.

THE AMERICAN JEREMIAD. By Sacvan Bercovitch. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1978; pp. xvi+239. $15.00.

THE DRED SCOTT CASE. By Don E. Fehrenbacher. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978; xii+741. $25.00.

POLITICAL LANGUAGE AND RHETORIC. By Paul E. Corcoran. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979; pp. xvii+216. $14.95.

UTOPIAN THOUGHT IN THE WESTERN WORLD. By Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1979; vi+896. $25.00.

AN INTRODUCTION TO REASONING. By Stephen Toulmin, Richard Rieke, and Allan Janik. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1979; pp. viii+343. $12.95.

COMMUNICATION ARTS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD. Edited by Eric A. Havelock and Jackson P. Hershbell. Foreword by George N. Gordon. New York: Hastings House, Publishers, 1978; pp. xiv+162. $12.50.

COMMUNICATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIETY. By Jürgen Habermas. Trans. Thomas McCarthy. Boston: Beacon Press, 1979; pp. xxiv+239. $5.95 (paper).

THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONVERSATION AND DISCOURSE. Edited by Terry Myers. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1979 (distributed in America by Columbia University Press); pp. vii+128. $7.50.

COMMUNICATION: THE ESSENCE OF SCIENCE. By William D. Garvey. New York: Pergamon Press, Inc., 1979; xii+332. $35.20; paper $17.60.

MAKING NEWS: A STUDY IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY. By Gaye Tuchman. New York: Free Press, 1978; pp. xi+244. $12.95.

KEEPING THE FLAME: MEDIA AND GOVERNMENT IN LATIN AMERICA. By Robert N. Pierce, with the collaboration of John Spicer Nichols. New York: Communications Arts Books, 1979; pp. xvi+270. $14.50; paper $7.95.