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The Selected Writings of John Witherspoon
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Considered the first significant teacher of rhetoric in America, John Witherspoon also introduced Scottish moral philosophy in America, and as president of Princeton reformed the curriculum to give emphasis to both studies. He was an active pamphleteer on religious and political issues and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.Thomas P Miller argues that Witherspoon’s career exemplifies the Ciceronian ideal, and the eight selections Miller presents from the 1802 American edition of the Works corroborate that claim.
Thomas Miller is a professor of English and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at the University of Arizona. He is the author of The Formation of College English Studies: Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the British Cultural Provinces, for which he won the Modern Language Association’s Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize in 1997.
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