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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... Union at Gettysburg Mark Twain Celebrates the Fourth of July . President Calvin Coolidge Affirms His Faith in Massachusetts Interior Secretary Harold Ickes Lashes Isolationists and Defeatists Judge Learned Hand Evokes the Spirit of ...
... Union at Gettysburg Mark Twain Celebrates the Fourth of July . President Calvin Coolidge Affirms His Faith in Massachusetts Interior Secretary Harold Ickes Lashes Isolationists and Defeatists Judge Learned Hand Evokes the Spirit of ...
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... Union in His Reply to Senator Hayne Senator John C. Calhoun Fights the Expunging of His Criticism of President Andrew Jackson Abolitionist Charles Sumner Excoriates Two Senate Colleagues on the Issue of “ Bloody Kansas ” Senator Stephen ...
... Union in His Reply to Senator Hayne Senator John C. Calhoun Fights the Expunging of His Criticism of President Andrew Jackson Abolitionist Charles Sumner Excoriates Two Senate Colleagues on the Issue of “ Bloody Kansas ” Senator Stephen ...
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... Excoriates Mrs. Thatcher's Toryism Henry Kissinger Warns against the Reemergence of Isolationism George H. W. Bush Accepts the Republican Nomination President Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union Acknowledges His Fault.
... Excoriates Mrs. Thatcher's Toryism Henry Kissinger Warns against the Reemergence of Isolationism George H. W. Bush Accepts the Republican Nomination President Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union Acknowledges His Fault.
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Great Speeches in History William Safire. President Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union Acknowledges His Fault Commentator Patrick J. Buchanan Brings a Note of Populism to the GOP British Prime Minister Tony Blair Exhorts His Party to ...
Great Speeches in History William Safire. President Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union Acknowledges His Fault Commentator Patrick J. Buchanan Brings a Note of Populism to the GOP British Prime Minister Tony Blair Exhorts His Party to ...
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... Union, which is wearing thin, and to stop antislavery Europe from trading with the South; at the same time, you do not want to trigger a bloody slave rebellion or lose border states or preclude peace negotiations with Confederate ...
... Union, which is wearing thin, and to stop antislavery Europe from trading with the South; at the same time, you do not want to trigger a bloody slave rebellion or lose border states or preclude peace negotiations with Confederate ...
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