The Committed Word Leslie S. Treas The poems evoke Ruskin as

The poems evoke Ruskin as writer and artist

began exhaustive research on what would become his influential biography of the late president

These powerful community coping efforts helped African Americans band together and withstand the nation's rejection of them as viable citizens

and steps for assessing a school's needs and for evaluating a program's effectiveness

In a voice that is rich and accomplished

The Committed Word Leslie S. Treas The poems evoke Ruskin asDuring the past century, literary education, often divorced from rhetoric, has grown increasingly distant from the practice of language in statecraft, law, religion, and ethics. Yet literature and rhetoric retain open, independent powers to enhance what Emerson calls "the conduct of life." In these provocative essays, James Engell argues that a more complete literary training can foster a heightened sense of shared social experience, an awareness of