Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in HistoryWilliam Safire From a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, this collection of speeches is “the most valuable kind of book, the kind that benefits mind and heart” (Peggy Noonan). This third edition of the bestselling collection of classic and modern oratory offers numerous examples of the greatest speeches ever delivered—from the ancient world to the modern. Speeches in Lend Me Your Ears span a broad stretch of history, from Gen. George Patton inspiring Allied troops on the eve of D-Day to Pericles’s impassioned eulogy for fallen Greek soldiers during the Peloponnesian War; and from Jesus of Nazareth’s greatest sermons to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s fiery speech in response to the Bush vs. Gore decision that changed the landscape of American politics in our time. Editor William Safire has collected a diverse range of speeches from both ancient and modern times, from people of many different backgrounds and political affiliations, and from people on both sides of history’s greatest battles and events. This book provides a wealth of valuable examples of great oratory for writers, speakers, and history aficionados. |
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... American Revolution about Their Lineage Walter Lippmann Scores His Generational Cohort for Having Taken " the Easy Way " Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch Offers America's First Plan to Control Nuclear Weapons Senator Robert Taft Opposes ...
... American Revolution about Their Lineage Walter Lippmann Scores His Generational Cohort for Having Taken " the Easy Way " Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch Offers America's First Plan to Control Nuclear Weapons Senator Robert Taft Opposes ...
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... American experiment in popular government was crucial to the hopes for freedom around the world and that " the last ... Americans one of their earliest glimpses of a worldview and an understanding of the new nation's global significance ...
... American experiment in popular government was crucial to the hopes for freedom around the world and that " the last ... Americans one of their earliest glimpses of a worldview and an understanding of the new nation's global significance ...
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... America , and more than once she was nearly mobbed for this audacity . After her first visit to the United States , Frances Wright produced Views of Society and Manners in America , an 1821 book in favor of American life . She returned to ...
... America , and more than once she was nearly mobbed for this audacity . After her first visit to the United States , Frances Wright produced Views of Society and Manners in America , an 1821 book in favor of American life . She returned to ...
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... American society . After a series of speakers that included Joseph Hodges Choate , America's new ambassador to Great Britain , Twain delivered his address , " The Day We Celebrate . " Typical of Twain's anecdotal style , this speech ...
... American society . After a series of speakers that included Joseph Hodges Choate , America's new ambassador to Great Britain , Twain delivered his address , " The Day We Celebrate . " Typical of Twain's anecdotal style , this speech ...
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... America ? For years it has been dinned into us that we are a weak nation ; that we are an inefficient people ; that ... Americans , we free Americans nourished on Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence , hold moth - eaten ideas ...
... America ? For years it has been dinned into us that we are a weak nation ; that we are an inefficient people ; that ... Americans , we free Americans nourished on Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence , hold moth - eaten ideas ...
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Abraham Lincoln American arms army attack audience believe blessings blood British called capital punishment Catiline Chief Seattle Christ citizens civil cloning Constitution Court death Declaration defend delivered democracy democratic duty enemy Everett Dirksen evil faith Father fear feel fight force freedom friends gentlemen German give glory hath heart honor hope House human human cloning judge justice Kennedy kill leaders League of Nations liberty Lincoln live Lloyd Bentsen look Lord means military mind nation never Nixon O. J. Simpson ourselves Parliament patriotism peace political President principles question religion remember Republic Revolution Richard Nixon Robert Frost Senate sermon slave slavery soldiers soul South Vietnam Soviet Soviet Union speak speech spirit suffering talk tell things thought truth Union United victory Winston Churchill women words