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]

  • 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]

  • Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

    • ASIN: 1538729741
    • ISBN: 1538729741
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

    In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces.Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including... [Read More]

  • 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]

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God

    • ASIN: 0061120065
    • ISBN: 0061120065
    • Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Wa... [Read More]

  • In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century

    • ASIN: 0743410521
    • ISBN: 0743410521
    • Manufacturer: Washington Square Press

    This bestselling collection of American oratory is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: a record of twentieth-century America captured in the words that inspired and infuriated, electrified and galvanized its people. Decade by decade, generation to generation, history unfolds in the famous and infamous expressions of Americans from all wal... [Read More]

  • 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]

  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

    • ASIN: 0345350685
    • ISBN: 0345350685
    • Brand: Ballantine Books
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

  • Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)

    • ASIN: 0252082486
    • ISBN: 0252082486
    • Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press

    Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Cooper looks at the far-reaching intellectual achievements of ... [Read More]

  • 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]

  • 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]

  • 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]

  • 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]

  • The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary (Vol. Three-Volume Set)

    • ASIN: 0393292495
    • ISBN: 0393292495
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    A landmark event: the complete Hebrew Bible in the award-winning translation that delivers the stunning literary power of the original. A masterpiece of deep learning and fine sensibility, Robert Alter’s translation of the Hebrew Bible, now complete, reanimates one of the formative works of our culture. Capturing its brilliantly compact poetry an... [Read More]

  • Free Speech, The People's Darling Privilege: Struggles for Freedom of Expression in American History (Constitutional Conflicts)

    • ASIN: 0822325292
    • ISBN: 0822325292
    • Brand: Brand: Duke University Press Books
    • Manufacturer: Duke University Press Books

    Modern ideas about the protection of free speech in the United States did not originate in twentieth-century Supreme Court cases, as many have thought. Free Speech, “The People’s Darling Privilege” refutes this misconception by examining popular struggles for free speech that stretch back through American history. Michael Kent Curtis focuses ... [Read More]

  • 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]

  • Gone with the Wind

    • ASIN: 1451635621
    • ISBN: 1451635621
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    Since its original publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind—winner of the Pulitzer Prize and one of the bestselling novels of all time—has been heralded by readers everywhere as The Great American Novel. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.Widely considered The Great American Novel, and often reme... [Read More]

  • 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]

  • Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

    • ASIN: 055338368X
    • ISBN: 055338368X
    • Brand: Brand: Bantam
    • Manufacturer: Bantam

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “An incredibly gripping, moving, and literate work of art, rarely does an author manage to re-create a moment in history with such mastery, authority, and psychological insight.”—Nelson DeMilleAt Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. T... [Read More]

  • 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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