Democratic Eloquence: The Fight over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-Century America

"A penetrating account of the long debate about the kind of public language appropriate for a democratic society. . . . Cmiel manages to do justice to both sides."--Christopher Lasch, author ofThe Culture of Narcissism "Every scholar interested in the English language will put this book next to Mencken and Baugh. It will be indispensable to writing the social history of English into the 20th Century."--Joseph Williams, author ofOrigins of the English LanguageKenneth Cmiel is the author of 'Democratic Eloquence: The Fight over Popular Speech in Nineteenth-Century America', published 1991 under ISBN 9780520074859 and ISBN 0520074858.