Acknowledgments

Page 181 →This book has been made available open access thanks to the financial and material support provided by the University of South Carolina Libraries. They have supported its distribution so that whatever knowledge is within it can find its highest and best use, free to all people, at all times and everywhere. All proceeds from the print edition have been rendered back to the publisher for their long support of the study of the history of rhetoric.

Rhetorical myth is often filled with tales of unseen benevolent intelligences that fill the whole world. This work has been an effort of many hands who assisted in its completion. I thank Richard Leo Enos, who has assisted at nearly every stage of this book. Additionally, I received support and encouragement from Professor Scott Sundvall, Professor Elizabeth Rohan, Dr. Suzan Aiken, Professor Janet Atwill, Dr. Claudia Langosch, Professor Richard Averbeck, Professor Hany Rashwan, and Professor Joshua Gunn. Sadly, it is impossible to name all of the many rhetoricians who aided in this work, as they acted as anonymous peer reviewers in articles formative to its completion, but they are not forgotten. The University of Doha for Science and Technology also deserves thanks for support of my work.

Finally, I would like to thank my beloved wife, Almagul Ramsey, for her abiding belief in my work and her endless devotion.