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Book Title: Oratory And Rhetoric In The Nineteenth-Century South: A Rhet...
Item Length: 9.2in
Item Height: 0.5in
Item Width: 6.1in
Author: w. Stuart Towns
Publication Name: Oratory and Rhetoric in the Nineteenth-Century South : a Rhetoric of Defense
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication Year: 2000
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 11.9 Oz
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
