Best known for his Liberty or Death address, the oratorical essence of the American Revolution, Patrick Henry, Virginia patriot, statesman, and foremost orator of the Revolutionary period, is scrutinized in this eighth volume in the Greenwood Press "Great American Orators" series. Taken as a whole the volumes chronicle the role of public discourse in the United States and fill the void that has existed in American public address. In "Patrick Henry, The Orator," David A. McCants develops fresh perspectives on an illustrious orator who excelled in two of the classical genres of rhetoric--the...