David Charles Gore

DAVID CHARLES GORE {[email protected]} is professor and department head in the Department of Communication at the University of Minnesota Duluth, where he teaches courses in the history and theory of rhetoric. He is the author of The Voice of the People: Political Rhetoric in the Book of Mormon, published in 2019 by the Neal A. Maxwell Institute at Brigham Young University.

England’s Life of Paradox

Articles/Essays – Volume 55, No. 2

The attacks of September 11, 2001 are a spectacular reminder that the struggle between religion and politics is alive and well in the twenty-first century. Eugene England’s life, which ended just weeks before those attacks,…

Being, A Household World

Articles/Essays – Volume 52, No. 4

Joseph Smith’s Letter from Liberty Jail as an Epistolary Rhetoric

Articles/Essays – Volume 43, No. 4

Joseph Smith may not have ever spoken the word “rhetoric,” but his participation in juvenile debating societies probably brought him some contact with rhetoric’s long tradition.Regardless of his knowledge of this tradition, it is obvious that Smith knew how to persuade people through speech and writing. In addition, his writings instruct readers about how to persuade in a manner consistent with the restored gospel of Mormonism.