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• American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance: Word Medicine, Word Magic (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006), ed. by Ernest Stromberg, contrib. by Matthew Dennis, Patricia Bizzell, Angela Pulley Hudson, Malea D. Powell, Janna Knittel, Holly Lynn Baumgartner, Karen A. Redfield, Robin DeRosa, Anthony G. Murphy, Ellen L. Arnold, Peter D'Errico, and Richard Clark Eckert (page images at Pitt)
• Judicial Rhapsodies: Rhetoric and Fundamental Rights in the Supreme Court (Amherst: Amherst College Press, 2023), by Doug Coulson (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Visions of Global America and the Future of Critical Reading (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Daniel T. O'Hara (PDF at Ohio State)
• Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Steven Mailloux (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1986), by Mark Krupnick (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by Nina Baym (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton (originally published 1999; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by James Turner (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Poe as a Literary Critic (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1946), by John Esten Cooke, ed. by N. Bryllion Fagin (illustrated HTML at eapoe.org)

• Class, Critics, and Shakespeare: Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Sharon O'Dair (page images at HathiTrust)

• Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-40 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Mary Ann Calo (page images at HathiTrust)

• The First Sail: J. Hillis Miller ("a film book"; London: Open Humanities Press, 2015), ed. by Dragan Kujundzic (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• My Many Selves: The Quest for a Plausible Harmony (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2006), by Wayne C. Booth (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• The Americanist (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Daniel Aaron (page images at HathiTrust)

• Moving Places: A Life at the Movies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Jonathan Rosenbaum (HTML at UC Press)

• The Americanist (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Daniel Aaron (page images at HathiTrust)

• My Many Selves: The Quest for a Plausible Harmony (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2006), by Wayne C. Booth (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Rhetoric and Pluralism: Legacies of Wayne Booth (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), ed. by Frederick J. Antczak (PDF at Ohio State)

• The First Sail: J. Hillis Miller ("a film book"; London: Open Humanities Press, 2015), ed. by Dragan Kujundzic (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)

• To Enlarge the Machinery of Government: Congressional Debates and the Growth of the American State, 1858-1891 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2007), by Williamjames Hoffer (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The IDEA Guide to the 2012 U.S. Presidential Debates (New York et al: International Debate Education Association, 2012), contrib. by Bruce Lee Zellers (PDF with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas In the Celebrated Campaign of 1858 in Illinois, Including the Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, etc.; Also the Two Great Speeches of Abraham Lincoln in Ohio in 1859 (Cleveland: Burrows Bros. Co., 1897), by Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas (HTML at Bartleby)
• Stephen A. Douglas: Annual Address Delivered Before the Illinois State Historical Society, Springfield, Illinois, January 31, 1908 (Springfield, IL: Illinois State Journal Co., State Printers, 1909), by Adlai E. Stevenson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Writings of Abraham Lincoln (national edition, 8 volumes; New York: Lamb Pub. Co., n.d.), by Abraham Lincoln, ed. by Arthur Brooks Lapsley, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt, Carl Schurz, Joseph Hodges Choate, Noah Brooks, and Stephen A. Douglas
  • Volume 1 (1832-1843): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (1843-1858): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (Lincoln-Douglas Debates I): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4 (Lincoln-Douglas Debates II): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5 (1858-1862): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 6 (1862-1863): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 7 (1863-1865): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 8 (Life of Lincoln): multiple formats at archive.org
• The Writings of Abraham Lincoln (biographical eighth volume by Noah Brooks omitted), by Abraham Lincoln, ed. by Arthur Brooks Lapsley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Deschler's Precedents of the United States House of Representatives, Including References to Provisions of the Constitution and Laws, and to Decisions of the Courts (1974), by Lewis Deschler (PDF and text at house.gov)
• Hughes' American Parliamentary Guide, Prepared for Ohio General Assembly: The Process of Lawmaking (Columbus: F. J. Heer Printing Co., 1922), by Edward Wakefield Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lex Parliamentaria Americana: Elements of the Law and Practice of Legislative Assemblies in the United States of America (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1856), by Luther Stearns Cushing (page images at MOA)
• House Practice: A Guide to the Rules, Precedents and Procedures of the House (current and past editions, 1996-present), contrib. by Wm. Holmes Brown, Charles W. Johnson, John V. Sullivan, and Thomas J. Wickham (PDF and text files with commentary at govinfo.gov)
• A Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States (Washington: Davis and Force, 1820), by Thomas Jefferson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Warrington's Manual: A Manual for the Information of Officers and Members of Legislatures, Conventions, Societies, Corporations, Orders, Etc., by William S. Robinson (page images at MOA)

• Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and Rules of the House of Representatives of the United States, by United States House of Representatives, contrib. by Thomas Jefferson (partial serial archives)

• Filibuster Abuse (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2010), by Mimi Marziani, contrib. by Susan M. Liss (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• From Pillar to Post: Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book (New York: The Century Co., 1916), by John Kendrick Bangs, illust. by John R. Neill (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Activist WPA: Changing Stories about Writing and Writers (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), by Linda Adler-Kassner (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Writing Program Administration (2007), by Susan H. McLeod (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• The Outcomes Book: Debate and Consensus After the WPA Outcomes Statement (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), by Susanmarie Harrington (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Whose Goals? Whose Aspirations?: Learning to Teach Underprepared Writers Across the Curriculum (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2002), by Stephen M. Fishman and Lucille Parkinson McCarthy (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Designing Writing Assignments (c2008), by Traci Gardner (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
• Thinking and Writing in College: A Naturalistic Study of Students in Four Disciplines (c1990), by Barbara E. Fassler Walvoord and Lucille Parkinson McCarthy, contrib. by Virginia Johnson Anderson, John R. Breihan, Susan Robison, and A. Kimbrough Sherman (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)
• Border Talk: Writing and Knowing in the Two-Year College (c1997), by Howard B. Tinberg (PDF files with commentary at colostate.edu)

• Talking Politics: The Substance of Style from Abe to "W" (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2003), by Michael Silverstein (PDF with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)
• Collateral Damage: The Influence of Political Rhetoric on the Incorporation of Second-Generation Americans (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Sean Richey (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics (c2008), by Elenore Long (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• Confessions of a Presidential Speechwriter (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, c2014), by Craig R. Smith (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Proverbs are the Best Policy: Folk Wisdom and American Politics (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), by Wolfgang Mieder (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Confessions of a Presidential Speechwriter (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, c2014), by Craig R. Smith (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Talking Politics: The Substance of Style from Abe to "W" (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2003), by Michael Silverstein (PDF with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)

• Dangerous Writing: Understanding the Political Economy of Composition (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2009), by Tony Scott (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by James Francis Darsey (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom (c2011), ed. by Martine Courant Rife, Shaun Slattery, and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)

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