Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. The Subversive Power of the Historian 13
6. Politicized Truth and Doubt 21
7. Interactive Constraints at Court 39
8. Salient Formal Characteristics of the Addresses 47
9. Rhetoric in Opposition 71
10. Commitment to the Facts 99
11. Moral Norms as Facts 111
12. How Did Ministers Err? 137
13. A Diversity of Evidence 155
14. Appendices 177
15. Notes 215
16. Bibliography 267
17. Index 275