History as Rhetoric: The Persuasiveness of Style and Narrative Book

Ch. 1	On Style and Narrative in History: A Rhetorical Perspective	1
Pt. I	Historians as Rhetorical Stylists	19
Ch. 2	Frederick Jackson Turner and the Oratorical Origins of Persuasive Style in the Frontier Thesis	21
Ch. 3	Carl Becker and the Epigrammatic Force of Style in Epideictic History: An Overt Impact	68
Ch. 4	Alfred Thayer Mahan's Style in History as a Persuasive Paramessage: A Subtle Impress	107
Pt. II	The Rhetoric of Narrative in History	139
Ch. 5	Alfred Thayer Mahan as Opinion Leader for the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor: Narrative Fidelity with Fact	141
Ch. 6	Frank L. Owsley Competes Rhetorically but Unsuccessfully for the Hearts and Minds of the South: Narrative Fidelity and Myth	181
Ch. 7	Barbara Tuchman, John Kennedy, and Why "The Missiles of October" Did Not Become The Guns of August: Narrative Fidelity from Archetypal Story Form	222
Pt. III	Historians in a Stream of Time	261
Ch. 8	History and the Frontier Metaphor for War in American Society: From Syntax through Archetype	263
	Bibliography	319
	Index	343