What person faced with speaking in public wouldn't want some pointers from great speakers like John F Kennedy or Ronald Reagan? This work outlines the six areas that are critical for making an impact with a speech - situation, content, structure, style, delivery, rhetorical strategies and tactics. It also features six speeches on an audio CD.
Michael E. Eidenmuller, Ph.D., is an associate professor of speech communication at the University of Texas at Tyler and the founder of AmericanRhetoric.com, the Internet's largest database of freely available, complete speeches in both text and audio format. He lives in Whitehouse, Texas.