Carolyn Calloway-Thomas & John Louis Lucaites 
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Sermonic Power of Public Discourse [EPUB ebook] 

Critical studies of the range of King s public discourse as forms of sermonic rhetoric The nine essays in this volume offer critical studies of the range of King s public discourse as forms of sermonic rhetoric. They focus on five diverse and relative short examples from King s body of work: Death of Evil on the Seashore, Letter from Birmingham Jail, I Have a Dream, A Time to Break Silence, and I ve Been to the Mountaintop. Taken collectively, these five works span both the duration of King s career as a public advocate but also represent the broad scope of his efforts to craft and project a persuasive vision a beloved community that persists through time.