Henry Grady or Tom Watson?: The Rhetorical Struggle for the New South, 1880-1890 Book

	Preface
	Introduction	1
	A Survey of Southern Oratory	3
	This Study of Henry Grady and Tom Watson	10
Ch. 1	The Southern Mind and Metaphor	17
	The Southern Mind and Agriculture	18
	Southern Religious Rhetoric and Economic Recovery	20
	Southern Religion, Rhetoric, and Metaphor	24
	The Early Life of Henry W. Grady	32
	The Early Life of Thomas E. Watson	34
Ch. 2	Henry Grady's Vision	39
	Grady Matures as Editor and Speaker	39
	The New South Speech	44
	Grady's Dallas Speech	47
	The Farmer's Place: Grady's Speeches for Agrarian Reform	52
	Grady's Final Speeches	57
	Grady's Metaphors: The Vision Unified	60
Ch. 3	Tom Watson's Vision	63
	Matures as Attorney and Speaker	64
	The Mature Epideictic: Watson's Speeches, 1883-1886	70
	An Aggressive Epideictic: Watson's Speeches, 1888-1889	76
	Watson's Metaphors: The Vision Unified	87
Ch. 4	Through the Matrix of Metaphors	89
	Setting the Stage: Metaphors and Remembrance of Things Past	90
	A New Truth Revealed: Metaphors and the Future	92
	Metaphors and Southern Identity	96
	Appendix A : Key Speeches of Henry Grady	99
	Grady's New South Speech	99
	Grady's The Farmer and the Cities Speech at Elberton, Georgia	108
	Appendix B: Key Speeches of Tom Watson	125
	Watson's Commencement Address at Mercer University	125
	Watson's Commencement Address at Milledgeville, Georgia	141
	Selected Bibliography	155
	Index	163