American History: The Greatest Speeches (1933-2008)

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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]

  • Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History (Updated and Expanded)

    • 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]

  • The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech

    • ASIN: 1621573702
    • ISBN: 1621573702
    • Brand: Regnery Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Regnery Publishing

    Lifelong liberal Kirsten Powers blasts the Left's forced march towards conformity in an exposé of the illiberal war on free speech. No longer champions of tolerance and free speech, the "illiberal Left" now viciously attacks and silences anyone with alternative points of view.  Powers asks, "What ever happened to free speech in America?"... [Read More]

  • American Political Speeches (Penguin Civic Classics)

    • ASIN: 0143121952
    • ISBN: 0143121952
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    A selection of speeches by the most inspiring and persuasive orators in American historyPenguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and—above all—essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Series editor Richard Beeman, author of The Penguin Guide to the U.S. Constitution, draws together the great ... [Read More]

  • Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

    • ASIN: 1401300561
    • ISBN: 1401300561
    • Manufacturer: Hyperion

    Winston Churchill was the most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time. It was as an orator that Churchill became most completely alive, and it was through his oratory that his words made their greatest and most enduring impact. While the definitive collection of Churchill's speeches fills eight volumes, here for the first time, his grandson,... [Read More]

  • 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]

  • Permanent Record

    • ASIN: 1250237238
    • ISBN: 1250237238
    • Manufacturer: Metropolitan Books

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREdward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down.In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke... [Read More]

  • The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan

    • ASIN: 1630060496
    • ISBN: 1630060496
    • Manufacturer: Humanix Books

    From the time he arrived on the political scene in 1964 – throughout his presidency and beyond, Ronald Reagan – used his speeches to inspire and reinvigorate America. When he spoke, Reagan, said, he was “preaching a sermon.” The American people saw his vision of America and his dreams for the future and they overwhelmingly responded; he was re... [Read More]

  • The Best of Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke (Conservative Leadership Series)

    • ASIN: 089526398X
    • ISBN: 089526398X
    • Manufacturer: Gateway Editions

    No conservative library is complete without the thought of Edmund Burke, the founder of modern conservatism.

  • Unfreedom of the Press

    • ASIN: B07Q2JZLJ9
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio

    From five-time number one New York Times best-selling 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 gov... [Read More]

  • Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: 0141442069
    • ISBN: 0141442069
    • Brand: Churchill, Winston S./ Cannadine, David (EDT)
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time - phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business as usual', 'the few', and 'summit meeting' passed quickly into everyday use - Winston Churchill used language as his most powerful weapon at a time when his most frequent complaint was that the armoury was otherwise empty. In this volume, David Cannad... [Read More]

  • Proverbs Are The Best Policy: Folk Wisdom And American Politics

    • ASIN: 0874216222
    • ISBN: 0874216222
    • Brand: Brand: Utah State University Press
    • Manufacturer: Utah State University Press

    Wolfgang Mieder, widely considered the world’s greatest proverb scholar, here considers the role of proverbial speech on the American political stage from the Revolutionary War to the present. He begins his survey by discussing the origins and characteristics American proverbs and their spread across the globe hand in hand with America’s intern... [Read More]

  • Regicide and Revolution: Speeches at the Trial of Louis XVI

    • ASIN: 0231082592
    • ISBN: 0231082592
    • Manufacturer: Columbia University Press

    Maintaining that the trial and public execution of Louis XVI was an absolutely essential part of the French Revolution, Walzer discusses two types of regicide: the first, committed by would-be kings or their agents, left the monarchy's mystique and divine right intact, while the second was a revolutionary act intended to destroy it completely.Walze... [Read More]

  • 50 Speeches That Made the Modern World: Famous Speeches from Women's Rights to Human Rights

    • ASIN: 1473640946
    • ISBN: 1473640946
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Chambers

    Throughout history, great speeches have produced great change. From inciting violence and asserting control to restoring peace and securing freedom, nothing has the raw emotional power of a speech delivered at the right moment, in the right place, with the right content, and the right delivery. 50 Speeches That Made The Modern World is a celebratio... [Read More]

  • Starving for Justice: Hunger Strikes, Spectacular Speech, and the Struggle for Dignity

    • ASIN: 0816537933
    • ISBN: 0816537933
    • Manufacturer: University of Arizona Press

    In the 1990s three college campuses in California exploded as Chicano/a and Latino/a students went on hunger strikes. Through courageous self-sacrifice, these students risked their lives to challenge racial neoliberalism, budget cuts, and fee increases. The strikers acted and spoke spectacularly and, despite great odds, produced substantive change.... [Read More]

  • Legal Speeches of Democratic Athens: Sources for Athenian History

    • ASIN: 087220927X
    • ISBN: 087220927X
    • Brand: Brand: Hackett Pub Co
    • Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

    "[Wolpert and Kapparis's] anthology . . . stands apart in a number of key ways. Virtually all of the translations, which are of very high quality, are new for this volume. . . .     "Each of the introductions to the individual speeches is accompanied by a convenient outline, entitled ‘Key Information', of the important details about the disput... [Read More]

  • The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

    • ASIN: 1501168681
    • ISBN: 1501168681
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.As part of the Treaty of Par... [Read More]

  • The Best of Robert Ingersoll: Selections from His Writings and Speeches

    • ASIN: 0879752092
    • ISBN: 0879752092
    • Brand: Brand: Prometheus Books
    • Manufacturer: Prometheus

    Robert Ingersoll was America's finest orator and foremost leader of freethinkers. Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Eugene V. Debs, and Elizabeth Cady used to gather to hear the speeches of "the great agnostic."Roger E. Greeley has selected the best from speeches and essays of this iconoclastic orator who labored to destroy the superstition and hypocrisy ... [Read More]

  • Let the Word Go Forth: The Speeches, Statements, and Writings of John F. Kennedy 1947 to 1963

    • ASIN: 0440504066
    • ISBN: 0440504066
    • Manufacturer: Delta

    In his own words—JFK at his wisest, wittiest, and most eloquent In one volume, the writings and speeches of John F. Kennedy reveal a man and President and portray an era as no historian or biographer could. Here are the words that propelled a nation and moved the world. From the best-remembered speeches (“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not wh... [Read More]

  • Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library)

    • ASIN: 0743299647
    • ISBN: 0743299647
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    Winner of the Lincoln PrizeLincoln at Cooper Union explores Lincoln's most influential and widely reported pre-presidential address -- an extraordinary appeal by the western politician to the eastern elite that propelled him toward the Republican nomination for president. Delivered in New York in February 1860, the Cooper Union speech dispelled dou... [Read More]

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