Craig R. Smith is Professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Long Beach, where he directs the Center for First Amendment Studies. He has served as a consultant to CBS News for convention, election night, and inaugural coverage, and he was a full-time speechwriter for President Gerald R. Ford. He is also the author or coauthor of many books, including Freedom of Expression and Partisan Politics.
"Smith has a talent for really bringing his subject matter to life. Webster, 'the consummate orator of the Nineteenth Century,' is there to behold (and almost converse with) throughout the narrative and critical analysis.... [Smith] constructs a compelling historical narrative by weaving together masterful rhetorical analyses of many of Webster's splendid oratorical performances."-Michael J. Hyde; "This is a first-rate book. There is no other work of which I am aware that offers such a comprehensive treatment of Webster from a rhetorical point of view."-Martin J. Medhurst"
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