Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in HistoryWilliam Safire Rosetta Books, 2014 M04 22 - 1148 páginas 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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... John Adams Senator George Graham Vest Offers a Tribute to the Dog Ralph Waldo Emerson Commemorates the Centennial of Robert Burns Frederick Douglass Cuts through the Lincoln Myth to Consider the Man Humanist Robert Green Ingersoll ...
... John Adams Senator George Graham Vest Offers a Tribute to the Dog Ralph Waldo Emerson Commemorates the Centennial of Robert Burns Frederick Douglass Cuts through the Lincoln Myth to Consider the Man Humanist Robert Green Ingersoll ...
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... 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 Douglas Differs with Lincoln on the “ Popular.
... 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 Douglas Differs with Lincoln on the “ Popular.
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... John Cabell Breckinridge Disputes Colonel E. D. Baker's Charge of Treason Henry Cabot Lodge Speaks on the League of Nations Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia Appeals to the League of Nations to Stop Aggression Candidates Nixon and ...
... John Cabell Breckinridge Disputes Colonel E. D. Baker's Charge of Treason Henry Cabot Lodge Speaks on the League of Nations Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia Appeals to the League of Nations to Stop Aggression Candidates Nixon and ...
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... John Brown Has a Few Words to Say about His Death Sentence King Edward VIII Abdicates His Throne Yankee Great Lou ... John Wyclif Gives the Sixth Sunday Gospel after Easter Religious Scourge Savonarola Demands Repentance from the ...
... John Brown Has a Few Words to Say about His Death Sentence King Edward VIII Abdicates His Throne Yankee Great Lou ... John Wyclif Gives the Sixth Sunday Gospel after Easter Religious Scourge Savonarola Demands Repentance from the ...
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... John Wesley Asserts “Free Grace” to Deny the Implacability of Fate Clergyman John Witherspoon Couples Religion with Politics Chief Red Jacket Rejects a Change of Religion Bishop James Madison Speaks on Divine Providence toward America ...
... John Wesley Asserts “Free Grace” to Deny the Implacability of Fate Clergyman John Witherspoon Couples Religion with Politics Chief Red Jacket Rejects a Change of Religion Bishop James Madison Speaks on Divine Providence toward America ...
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