ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION: COMMUNICATION FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE INFORMATION AGE. Edited by Theresa Enos. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996; pp. xxiv + 803. $95.00.
ANGLO‐AMERICAN FEMINIST CHALLENGES TO THE RHETORICAL TRADITIONS: VIRGINIA WOOLF, MARY DALY, ADRIENNE RICH. By Krista Ratcliffe. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996; pp. xi + 227. $24.95.
THE FATE OF ELOQUENCE IN THE AGE OF HUME. By Adam Potkay. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1994; pp. xii + 253. $39.95.
THE RECOVERY OF RACE IN AMERICA. By Aaron David Gresson III. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995; pp. xiv + 256. $49.95; paper $19.95.
“DOERS OF THE WORD”: AFRICAN‐AMERICAN WOMEN SPEAKERS AND WRITERS IN THE NORTH (1830–1880). By Carla L. Peterson. New York: Oxford University Press. 1995; pp. ix + 284. $35.00.
VISIONS OF THE PAST: THE CHALLENGE OF FILM TO OUR IDEA OF HISTORY. By Robert A. Rosenstone. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995; pp. 271. $35.00; paper.
TRUMAN AND THE HIROSHIMA CULT. By Robert P. Newman. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1995; pp. xv + 272; $34.95.
ARCHITECTURES OF EXCESS: CULTURAL LIFE IN THE INFORMATION AGE. By Jim Collins. New York: Routledge, 1995; pp. 236. $49.95; $16.95 paper.
PROPHETS AND EMPERORS: HUMAN AND DIVINE AUTHORITY FROM AUGUSTUS TO THEODOSIUS. By David Potter. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. pp. viii + 281. $45.00.
SOCIAL APPROACHES TO COMMUNICATION. Edited by Wendy Leeds‐Hurwitz. Forward by Robert Craig. New York: Guilford Press, 1995; pp. ix + 260. $42.50; paper $19.95.
LANGUAGE AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR. By Derek Bickerton. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995; pp. 180. $24.95.
LANGUAGE AS ARTICULATE CONTACT: TOWARD A POST‐SEMIOTIC PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNICATION. By John Stewart. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995; pp. vii + 303. $59.50; paper $19.95.
WRITING HISTORIES OF RHETORIC. Edited by Victor Vitanza. Carbondale and Evansville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994. pp. xiii + 296. $39.95.