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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... face from the screen. On the stump, the rip-snorting harangues of yesteryear are being replaced by instant coffee-klatches in primary season and air-kissing “drop-bys” at October fund-raisers. (When television news does cover a ...
... face from the screen. On the stump, the rip-snorting harangues of yesteryear are being replaced by instant coffee-klatches in primary season and air-kissing “drop-bys” at October fund-raisers. (When television news does cover a ...
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... face on a huge screen alongside him ) , and toward conflict . President Bill Clinton's sermon - speech in a Memphis church is an example included herein of modern old - fashioned oratory , seen in person by hundreds . Another speech ...
... face on a huge screen alongside him ) , and toward conflict . President Bill Clinton's sermon - speech in a Memphis church is an example included herein of modern old - fashioned oratory , seen in person by hundreds . Another speech ...
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... face if poorly delivered. There is the old chestnut about the Texan striding along Fifty-seventh Street in Manhattan who asked a stranger, “Tell me, partner, how do I get to Carnegie Hall?” and the stranger replied, “Practice, practice ...
... face if poorly delivered. There is the old chestnut about the Texan striding along Fifty-seventh Street in Manhattan who asked a stranger, “Tell me, partner, how do I get to Carnegie Hall?” and the stranger replied, “Practice, practice ...
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... face all the dangers of war as intrepidly as they .... In our manner of living we show an elegance tempered with frugality , and we cultivate philosophy without enervating the mind . We display our wealth in the season of beneficence ...
... face all the dangers of war as intrepidly as they .... In our manner of living we show an elegance tempered with frugality , and we cultivate philosophy without enervating the mind . We display our wealth in the season of beneficence ...
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... face the strongest passions of mankind - our own not the least ; and in the end we shall have fabricated an imperfect instrument . But we shall not have wholly failed ; we shall have gone forward , if we bring to our task a pure and ...
... face the strongest passions of mankind - our own not the least ; and in the end we shall have fabricated an imperfect instrument . But we shall not have wholly failed ; we shall have gone forward , if we bring to our task a pure and ...
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