Oratory of the South: From the Civil War to the Present Time is a comprehensive study of the art of public speaking in the American South. Written by Edwin DuBois Shurter, a prominent professor of public speaking, the book examines the history and development of oratory in the South from the end of the Civil War to the mid-twentieth century.The book is divided into three parts. The first part covers the period from the end of the Civil War to the...