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This eye-opening and well-researched companion to the first volume of
Executing Democracy enters the death-penalty discussion during the debates of 1835 and 1843, when pro-death penalty Calvinist minister George Barrell Cheever faced off against abolitionist magazine editor John O'Sullivan. In contrast to the macro-historical overview presented in volume 1, volume 2 provides micro-historical case studies, using these debates as springboards into the discussion of the death penalty in America at large. Incorporating a wide range of sources, including political poems, newspaper editorials, and warring manifestos, this second volume highlights a variety of perspectives, thus demonstrating the centrality of public debates about crime, violence, and punishment to the history of American democracy. Hartnett's insightful assessment bears witness to a complex national discussion about the political, metaphysical, and cultural significance of the death penalty.
A propos de l'auteur
Stephen J. Hartnett is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver. He is the director of the UCD College-in-Prison Program, served as the 2017 president of the National Communication Association, and is the editor of
Captured Words/Free Thoughts, the annual arts and politics magazine. He has published ten books, including
A World of Turmoil: The United States, China, and Taiwan in the Long Cold War (2021) and the coedited
Imagining China: Rhetorics of Nationalism in an Age of Globalization (2017). His scholarship on international affairs has appeared in
Presidential Studies Quarterly, the
International Journal of Communication,
Rhetoric & Public Affairs, the
Taiwan Journal of Democracy, the
Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, and the
Quarterly Journal of Speech. His journalism on U.S.-China-Taiwan relations has appeared in
SupChina,
Public Seminar,
New Lines Magazine, and
Communication Currents. He has served since 2016 as one of co-organizers for five conferences in Beijing, one in Shenzhen, one in Hong Kong, and one online conference in Shanghai (during COVID). He has been awarded the Kohrs-Campbell Prize in Rhetorical Criticism, the James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address, the Association for Chinese Communication Studies' Xiao Award for Outstanding Rhetorical Research, and the University of Colorado's Thomas Jefferson Award.
Résumé
This eye-opening and well-researched companion to the first volume of Executing Democracy enters the death-penalty discussion during the debates of 1835 and 1843.
