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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... beginning the instructive part of this introduction ( composed in a style to make it possible for the reader to declaim in a stentorian tone ) , I want to make a point : there are secrets to speechwriting and speechmaking that you can ...
... beginning the instructive part of this introduction ( composed in a style to make it possible for the reader to declaim in a stentorian tone ) , I want to make a point : there are secrets to speechwriting and speechmaking that you can ...
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... beginning . Here's Demosthenes : " When they brought ... suits against me - when they menaced - when they promised - when they set these miscreants like wild beasts upon me .... " Here's Jesus : " Blessed are the poor in spirit ...
... beginning . Here's Demosthenes : " When they brought ... suits against me - when they menaced - when they promised - when they set these miscreants like wild beasts upon me .... " Here's Jesus : " Blessed are the poor in spirit ...
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... beginning with " let , " is neither grandiloquent nor shrill . In saying at the start , " We see before us a probable train of great events , " Webster set the stage for a speech in plain words that offered Americans one of their ...
... beginning with " let , " is neither grandiloquent nor shrill . In saying at the start , " We see before us a probable train of great events , " Webster set the stage for a speech in plain words that offered Americans one of their ...
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... world, a world of change. The thrust into outer space of the satellite spheres and missiles marks a beginning of another epoch in the long story of mankind. In the five or more billions of years the scientists tell us.
... world, a world of change. The thrust into outer space of the satellite spheres and missiles marks a beginning of another epoch in the long story of mankind. In the five or more billions of years the scientists tell us.
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... beginning with the exclamatory " What an eventful period is this ! " is a classic because it rivets the audience by addressing discrete , contrasting groups . The penultimate paragraph is addressed directly to the " friends of freedom ...
... beginning with the exclamatory " What an eventful period is this ! " is a classic because it rivets the audience by addressing discrete , contrasting groups . The penultimate paragraph is addressed directly to the " friends of freedom ...
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