Rhetoric, Politics, and Hamilton: An American Musical (Frontiers in Political

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Jeffrey P. Mehltretter Drury (PhD, University of Wisconsin) is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Wabash College. He has published in numerous rhetoric journals and authored two books: Speaking with the People's Voice (2014) and Argumentation in Everyday Life (2019). Sara A. Mehltretter Drury (PhD, Pennsylvania State University) is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Director of Democracy and Public Discourse at Wabash College. She has published in Communication Quarterly, Argumentation and Advocacy, and Journal of Public Deliberation, and is an Indiana Humanities Action Fellow.

Acknowledgments - Sara A. Mehltretter Drury/Jeffrey P. Mehltretter Drury/Henry Egan: Introduction: Hamilton as Cultural and Rhetorical Phenomenon - Jade C. Huell/Lindsay A. Jenkins: The I/Eye of History: Performing Public Memory, Utopia, and Critical Nostalgia in Hamilton - Michaelah Reynolds/Ryan Neville-Shepard: Hamilton and the Entelechy of the American Dream - Sara A. Mehltretter Drury/James Anthony Williams Jr.: Exhibiting Hamilton: History, Memory, and Musical Theater - Christopher Bell: Hamilton as Cosmogonic Myth - John Clyde Russell: Hamilton and Public Memory of the Founding Era: Myth, Humanization, and Comforting Whiteness in "Post-Racial" America - Emily Berg Paup: Patriarchy and Power: A Feminist Critique of Hamilton - Brandon Inabinet: Bondage and Circulation - Jeffrey P. Mehltretter Drury: Political Niceties and Rap in Hamilton - Mark P. Orbe: Diverse Offerings for Understanding U.S. Politics: Analyzing the Invitational Rhetoric of Hamilton and President Barack Obama - Nancy J. Legge: The Rhetorical Significance of Hamilton in Public Protests - Note on Contributors - Index.