This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 15 titles deal with the following topics: (1) the role of public discourse in the soil conservation movement from 1865 to 1935; (2) Dwight D. Eisenhower's public imagery of the Soviet Union and Communist China as presented in selected speeches and news conferences; (3) a computer-assisted rhetorical criticism of the messages of songwriter Harry F. Chapin; (4) Luis Munoz Marin's public persona and the exodus fantasy of the Puerto Rican commonwealth rhetorical vision; (5) rhetorical strategies used by Mary Harris "Mother" Jones within the context of the agitative rhetoric model developed by John Waite Bowers and Donovan J. Ochs; (6) southern clergy and a rhetoric of redemption for the reconstruction South; (7) the rhetorical strategies and tactics of Malcolm X; (8) foreign affairs perspectives toward revolution in El Salvador; (9) Booker T. Washington in Atlanta; (10) values expressed in the presidential speeches of John F. Kennedy; (11) women's music and the lesbian-feminist movement; (12) a rhetorical analysis of the Black Muslims; (13) the relationship between Christian conversion and the rhetoric of Malcolm Muggeridge; (14) the function of natural law warrants in the rhetorical discourse of women's suffrage from 1848 to 1920; and (15) the public speaking of progressive party Senator Hiram W. Johnson from 1866 to 1945. (HTH)