American History: The Greatest Speeches (1933-2008)
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Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History (Updated and Expanded Edition)
- ASIN: 0393059316
- ISBN: 0393059316
- Brand: W W Norton Company
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
The definitive compendium of classic and modern oratory expanded―with a new preface on what makes a speech "great." An instant classic when it was first published a decade ago and now enriched by seventeen new speeches, Lend Me Your Ears contains more than two hundred outstanding moments of oratory. It is selected, arranged, and introduced by Wil... [Read More]
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The World's Great Speeches: Fourth Enlarged (1999) Edition
- UPC: 800759409037
- ASIN: 0486409031
- ISBN: 9780486409030
- Brand: Dover Publications
- Manufacturer: Dover Publications
This outstanding compendium of 292 great speeches contains addresses from nearly every historical era and nation, from the formal orations of ancient Greece and the speeches of Julius Caesar, to modern-day addresses by Nelson Mandela, Ronald Regan and Václav Havel.Among the memorable speeches included here are Pericles' funeral oration, St. Bernar... [Read More]
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Unfreedom of the Press
- ASIN: 1476773092
- ISBN: 1476773092
- Brand: Threshold Editions
- Manufacturer: Threshold Editions
From five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, FOX News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin comes a groundbreaking and enlightening book that shows how the great tradition of the American free press has degenerated into a standardless profession that has squandered the faith and trust of the American public, not through actions of government o... [Read More]
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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
- ASIN: 0735224897
- ISBN: 0735224897
- Manufacturer: Penguin Press
A finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in NonfictionA New York Times Notable Book Bloomberg Best Book of 2018The New York Times bestseller!Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak ... [Read More]
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The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great
- ASIN: B07CLMXWT9
- Manufacturer: Broadside e-books
Now a #1 New York Times Bestseller.Human beings have never had it better than we have it now in the West. So why are we on the verge of throwing it all away?In 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of California–Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required to protect his speech. What was so frightening... [Read More]
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History's Greatest Speeches (Dover Thrift Editions)
- ASIN: B00I17XWW2
- Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Ideal for classroom use, this anthology also provides a valuable tool for preparing or performing public speeches. Twenty of the world's most influential and stirring public lectures include Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!" oration.Additional speeches... [Read More]
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
- ASIN: 0345350685
- ISBN: 0345350685
- Brand: Ballantine Books
- Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
- ASIN: 0743270754
- ISBN: 0743270754
- Brand: Simon & Schuster
- Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Winner of the Lincoln Prize Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president.On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates... [Read More]
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
- ASIN: 0307947904
- ISBN: 0307947904
- Brand: Anchor
- Manufacturer: Anchor
NATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARWho are the immensely wealthy right-wing ideologues shaping the fate of America today? From the bestselling author of The Dark Side, an electrifying work of investigative journalism that uncovers the agenda of this powerful group.In her new preface, Jane Mayer discusses the re... [Read More]
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The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors
- ASIN: 1984825488
- ISBN: 1984825488
- Manufacturer: Crown Forum
Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is a powerful collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, the political and the philosophical, it includes never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about the effect of today's populist movements on the future of ... [Read More]
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Atlas Shrugged
- ASIN: B003V8B5XO
- Brand: Unknown
- Manufacturer: Signet
Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the... [Read More]
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Fatwa: Hunted in America
- ASIN: 1947979000
- ISBN: 1947979000
- Manufacturer: Dangerous Books
If this book is proof of anything, it's that one person can make a difference. And what a remarkable difference Pamela Geller has made. At last, in Fatwa: Hunted In America, she tells her story.
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Politics - According to the Bible: A Comprehensive Resource for Understanding Modern Political Issues in Light of Scripture
- UPC: 025986330293
- ASIN: 0310330297
- ISBN: 0310330297
- Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
- Manufacturer: Zondervan Academic
A variety of perspectives exist within the Christian community when it comes to political issues and political involvement. This comprehensive and readable book presents a political philosophy from the perspective that the Gospel pertains to all of life so Christians should be involved in political issues. In brief, this is an analysis of conservat... [Read More]
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A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
- ASIN: 0060646918
- ISBN: 0060646918
- Brand: HarperOne
- Manufacturer: HarperOne
"We've got some difficult days ahead," civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., told a crowd gathered at Memphis's Clayborn Temple on April 3, 1968. "But it really doesn't matter to me now because I've been to the mountaintop. . . . And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a peop... [Read More]
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The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams
- ASIN: 0807842303
- ISBN: 0807842303
- Manufacturer: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
An intellectual dialogue of the highest plane achieved in America, the correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spanned half a century and embraced government, philosophy, religion, quotidiana, and family griefs and joys. First meeting as delegates to the Continental Congress in 1775, they initiated correspondence in 1777, negotiated ... [Read More]
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The Open Society and Its Enemies: New One-Volume Edition
- ASIN: 0691158134
- ISBN: 0691158134
- Brand: Brand: Princeton University Press
- Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zeal... [Read More]
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My Own Words
- ASIN: 150114524X
- ISBN: 150114524X
- Brand: Simon & Schuster
- Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
The New York Times bestselling book from Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—“a comprehensive look inside her brilliantly analytical, entertainingly wry mind, revealing the fascinating life of one of our generation's most influential voices in both law and public opinion” (Harper’s Bazaar).My Own Words “showcases Ruth Ginsburg’s a... [Read More]
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The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics)
- ASIN: 0451528816
- ISBN: 0451528816
- Manufacturer: Signet
A DOCUMENT THAT SHAPED A NATIONAn authoritative analysis of the Constitution of the United States and an enduring classic of political philosophy. Written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers explain the complexities of a constitutional government—its political structure and principles based on the inherent r... [Read More]
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An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice
- ASIN: 0399592490
- ISBN: 0399592490
- Brand: Unknown
- Manufacturer: Random House
This inspiring memoir by the Muslim American Gold Star father and captivating DNC speaker is the story of one family’s pursuit of the American dream. NAMED ONE OF THE FIVE BEST MEMOIRS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST “Moving . . . a story about family and faith, told with a poet’s sensibility . . . Khizr Khan’s book can teach all of u... [Read More]
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Thucydides (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
- ASIN: B00B9DFAH0
- Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Thucydides' classic work is a foundational text in the history of Western political thought. His narrative of the great war between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BC is now seen as a highly sophisticated study of the nature of political power itself: its exercise and effects, its agents and victims, and the arguments through which it is def... [Read More]
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