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than its competitors and perhaps also its predecessors, it ignites instructor enthusiasm in a much needed way. The appeal for most instructors, I suspect, is the core text’s abundant markers of departure, indicating multiple places where tangential exploration and classroom discussion might go. The book volleys numerous topics that lend themselves well to a discussion whose complexity goes well beyond the typical public speaking curriculum. For example, the description of Cicero’s “memory palace” (140) not only addresses the function of memory in public speaking, but points to questions of how memory functions individually, experientially, structurally, etc. Further, the inclusion of a contemporary eulogy, a speech that Gunn delivered at his grandmother’s memorial (262–265), illustrates not only the format of a funeral oration, but also demonstrates through its authenticity why public speaking is a community oriented art. Such a performative gesture is far more effective than simply asserting that speaking in public is a practice of being together through language. The realization of social affect comes to students not because of what the text states, but by way of its examples’ resonance. Thus, Speech Craft establishes pedagogical layers that are responsive to instructors and students: most basically, important concepts are clearly marked, and objectives stated; from there the text suggests both active and theoretical ways forward for more advanced purposes or seminars. Gunn’s book will no doubt please the discerning teacher and inimitable textbook author to whom it is dedicated: Professor Karlyn Kohrs Campbell.