August 8, 2008

Political Prophecies; Black and Gay in the South; The Real Wagner

By KACIE GLENN

What do George W. Bush, Frederick Douglass, Jerry Falwell, and Martin Luther King Jr. have in common? Besides being religious men, they have all understood the power of prophetic rhetoric in public discourse and used it, with varying degrees of eloquence, to generate approval and further their ideological views. According to George Shulman, author of American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture (University of Minnesota Press), the language of prophecy is at the heart