Great Speeches Of The 20th Century

Author : Bob Blaisdell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486315568
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Speeches of the 20th Century written by Bob Blaisdell and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stirring anthology features addresses by Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, the Dalai Lama, César Chávez, and many others.

Author : Tom Clark
Publisher : Preface Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781848090385
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Speeches of the 20th Century written by Tom Clark and published by Preface Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What has happened to the 'art' of speech-writing and speech making? Where are the men and women whose words set the heart racing with passion, turn battles, inspire populations to extraordinary endeavour: 'Ask not what your country can do for you.' 'We shall fight on the beaches.' 'I have a dream.' 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.' Quote these words today and they still have the power to stop us in our tracks. This is a book that should be required reading, a book that should be on every bookshelf in the country. Here are fourteen key speeches of the 20th century introduced by prominent figures ranging from F.W. de Klerk and Mikhail Gorbachev to Antony Beevor and Gordon Brown. Winston Churchill: We shall fight on the beaches. Introduced by Simon Schama J.F. Kennedy: Ask not what your country can do for you. Introduced by Kennedy's speech writer Ted Sorensen Nelson Mandela: An ideal for which I am prepared to die. Introduced by F.W. de Klerk Harold Macmillan: No going back. Introduced by Douglas Hurd Franklin D. Roosevelt: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Introduced by Gordon Brown Nikita Khrushchev: The cult of the individual. Introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev Emmeline Pankhurst: Freedom or death. Introduced by Germaine Greer Martin Luther King: I have a dream. Introduced by Gary Younge Charles de Gaulle: The flame of French resistance. Introduced by Antony Beevor Margaret Thatcher: The lady's not for turning. Introduced by Simon Jenkins Jawaharlal Nehru: A tryst with destiny. Introduced by Ian Jack Aneurin Bevan: Weapons for squalid and trivial ends. Introduced by Tam Dalyell Earl Spencer: The most hunted person of the modern age. Introduced by Beryl Bainbridge Virginia Woolf: Shakespeare's sister. Introduced by Kate Mosse

Author : Michael A. Cohen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802779700
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Live from the Campaign Trail written by Michael A. Cohen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the country wades into the hotly contested 2008 presidential election season, we look to the candidates' public pronouncements to gain an understanding of their platforms and to get a sense of the political direction our country might take over the course of the next four years. Presidential campaign oratory has always inspired and incited voters. In this collection of 27 pivotal campaign speeches, Michael Cohen helps bring to life the speeches that defined and dramatized American politics over the last century. From FDR's pledge for a "New Deal" to Nixon's legendary "Checkers" speech, from Dan Quayle's attack on Murphy Brown to select speeches from this year's presidential race, the "stump" speech has been the primary vehicle for candidates to share their political ambitions and ideals with the American people. With supporting essays that set the scene and provide the appropriate context for understanding what was said, how it was said, and why, Live from the Campaign Trail illustrates how campaign speeches have fundamentally shaped the way we think about American politics.

Author : Brian MacArthur
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0241982308
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches written by Brian MacArthur and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive collection gathers the most significant speeches of the modern era, from Theodore Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. to Ronald Reagan and Michelle Obama Defined by waves of idealism and doubt, progress and destruction, the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first have seen the best and worst of humanity in measures previously unimaginable. Underpinning the rise of radio, television, and the internet, the spoken word has proven ever more crucial in stirring the hearts and minds of millions around the world. In these pages, Emmeline Pankhurst agitates for the right to vote; Adolf Hitler rises to power; Fidel Castro sparks a revolution; John F. Kennedy calls Americans to action; Betty Friedan rallies for equality; and Barack Obama contemplates the meaning of America. The speeches contained in The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches, some of the most extraordinary and memorable of the modern age, have established and shaped how we understand ourselves and our place in the world around us.

Author : Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1623650992
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speeches that Changed the World written by Simon Sebag Montefiore and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensively updated with many new speeches including Earl Spencer's lament to "The extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana", Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech of 1956 signalling the beginning of the end of Stalinist Russia, Patrick Pearse's rousing funeral oration that fanned the flames of the Easter Rising, Kevin Rudd's historic apology to Australia's mistreated Aborigines and Barack Obama's momentous US election night victory speech. Alongside these are the finest war cries of Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King's prophetic "I have a dream" and "I've seen the promised land" speeches, the inspiring words of JFK and impassioned pleas from Nelson Mandela-the first at his trial in 1964 and the second on his election as president of South Africa in 1994. In addition are historic speeches from Elizabeth I, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, George Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln, Emmeline Pankhurst, Mahatma Gandhi, Vladimir Lenin, Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, General George S. Patton, J Robert Oppenheimer, Mao Zedong, Malcolm X, Richard M. Nixon, Pope John Paul II, Vaclav Havel, Elie Wiesel, Mikhail Gorbachev and many other great historical figures. Speeches that Changed the World presents over 50 momentous and thought-provoking speeches from throughout history. Complete with a potted biography of each speaker, and telling the story of why each oration was significant and what happened as a result, this is a gripping history of the world told through its greatest and most impassioned speeches.

Author : Bob Blaisdell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048611127X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Speeches by Native Americans written by Bob Blaisdell and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remarkable for their eloquence, depth of feeling, and oratorical mastery, these 82 compelling speeches encompass five centuries of Indian encounters with nonindigenous people. Beginning with a 1540 refusal by a Timucua chief to parley with Hernando de Soto ("With such a people I want no peace"), the collection extends to the 20th-century address of activist Russell Means to the United Nations affiliates and members of the Human Rights Commission ("We are people who love in the belly of the monster"). Other memorable orations include Powhatan's "Why should you destroy us, who have provided you with food?" (1609); Red Jacket's "We like our religion, and do not want another" (1811); Osceola's "I love my home, and will not go from it" (1834); Red Cloud's "The Great Spirit made us both" (1870); Chief Joseph's "I will fight no more forever" (1877); Sitting Bull's "The life my people want is a life of freedom" (1882); and many more. Other notable speakers represented here include Tecumseh, Seattle, Geronimo, and Crazy Horse, as well as many lesser-known leaders. Graced by forceful metaphors and vivid imagery expressing emotions that range from the utmost indignation to the deepest sorrow, these addresses are deeply moving documents that offer a window into the hearts and minds of Native Americans as they struggled against the overwhelming tide of European and American encroachment. This inexpensive edition, with informative notes about each speech and orator, will prove indispensable to anyone interested in Native American history and culture.

Author : Ronald Reagan
Publisher : Humanix Books
ISBN 13 : 163006050X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Best Hope written by Ronald Reagan and published by Humanix Books. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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-elected in 984 by the largest number of electoral votes in the nation’s history. Here in this collection of twenty-eight speeches spanning the Reagan era, readers can find inspiration in Reagan’s “sermons.” From his first speech in the political arena in 1964 to his Last Letter to America, informing Americans of his Alzheimer’s disease, Ronald Regan’s words show a profound belief in God, freedom, individualism, limited government, and his great love for his country. In addition to an introduction by Reagan’s son, Michael Reagan, each speech features an informative introduction which puts the speech into historical context, making The Last Best Hope the perfect entrée into the influence of one of the major figures of the 20th century.

Author : Sir Winston S. Churchill
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472527518
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Never Give In! written by Sir Winston S. Churchill and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great statesmen, a masterful historian whose writings won him the Nobel Prize for literature and a war-time leader with few peers, Sir Winston Churchill is remembered perhaps most clearly today for the sheer power of his oratory: the speeches that rallied a nation in its darkest hour and steeled that nation for victory against the might of the Fascist powers. Never Give In! celebrates this oratory by gathering together Churchill's most powerful speeches from throughout his public career. Carefully selected by his grandson, this collection includes all his best known speeches - from his great war-time broadcasts to the "Iron Curtain" speech that heralded the start of the Cold War - and many lesser known but inspirational pieces. In a single volume Never Give In! provides a powerful testimony to one of the great public figures of the 20th century.

Author : James Daley
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486115496
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Speeches by African Americans written by James Daley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the struggle for freedom and civil rights across two centuries, this anthology comprises speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr., Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Barack Obama, and many other influential figures.

Author : Franklin D. Roosevelt
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3732667561
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State of the Union Addresses written by Franklin D. Roosevelt and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: State of the Union Addresses by Franklin D. Roosevelt