Table of contents
Acknowledgmentsix
1. American echoes: On intertextuality in American
presidential discourse
2. “The voice of the nation”: The democratization of American
presidential discourse
3. “To declare to the world”: Inaugural addresses, eternal topoi,
and American civil religion
4. “Freedom and fear are at war”: The making of an American hypotext
5. “In the words of …”: Sacred texts, lieux de mémoire,
and presidential allusions
6. The Great American Scaffold
Works cited
Appendix
Name index329
Subject index
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