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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xv, 176 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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"This timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States--winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many other honors--reminds us of fundamental American principles. Over the course of his distinguished career, David McCullough has spoken before Congress, the White House, colleges and universities, historical societies, and other esteemed institutions....
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Harpercollins Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
128 pages
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"Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing is a collection of significant speeches, made both by those who held the reins of power and those who didn't, at significant times in American history. Read the original words-sometimes abridged and sometimes in their entirety-that have shaped our cultural fabric."--Amazon.com.
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Library of America volume 358
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2022]
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xvi, 955 pages ; 21 cm.
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Frederick Douglass was one of the greatest orators and essayists in American history. For five decades, from the antebellum period through the Civil War and Reconstruction and into the Gilded Age, he used his voice and wielded his pen in the cause of emancipation, equal rights, and human dignity. Inspired by the Hebrew prophets, Douglass developed a unique oratorical and literary style that combined scriptural cadences with savage irony, moral urgency,...
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Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
ix, 374 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"A fascinating insight into notable speeches that were never delivered, showing what could have been if history had gone down a different path. For almost every delivered speech, there exists an undelivered opposite. These "second speeches" provide alternative histories of what could have been if not for schedule changes, changes of heart, or momentous turns of events. In Undelivered, political speechwriter Jeff Nussbaum presents the most notable...
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
910 pages
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La antología definitiva para conocer a uno de los escritores más trascendentales en español. Edición conmemorativa de la RAE y la Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española. Poeta, político, ensayista, periodista y filósofo, el cubano de origen español José Martí es una figura indispensable para entender la literatura y la realidad contemporánea en América Latina. Fundador del Partido Revolucionario Cubano y organizador de la guerra...
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A controversial figure in the history of race relations around the world, Marcus Garvey amazed his enemies as much as he dazzled his admirers. This anthology contains some of the African-American rights advocate's most noted writings and speeches, including "Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World" and "Africa for the Africans."
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Give Speech A Chance, a timely and prescient anthology of scintillating essays by Harley Price, Ph.D., a brilliant social and political commentator, is "a dazzling collection of mordant essays on the aberrant Zeitgeist," according to Paul Gottfried in Chronicles magazine. In his Preface to the book, William Gairdner states that "In addition to being a very clear thinker with a profound historical and aesthetic sense of almost the entire Western tradition...
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Eulogy on King Philip (1836) is a speech by William Apes. An indentured servant, soldier, minister, and activist, Apes lived an uncommonly rich life for someone who died at just 41 years of age. Recognized for his pioneering status as a Native American public figure, William Apes was an astute recorder of a life in between. His Eulogy on King Philip celebrates the Wampanoag sachem also known as Metacomet, whose attempt to live in peace with the Plymouth...
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The author served in the United States Marine Corps during WWII and was a combat veteran in the South Pacific. He graduated from a Theological School and became a minister for many years. He graduated from Temple University, magna cum laude, earning his Doctoral Degree in Urban Education. He was employed by the Philadelphia School District until retirement and then moved to the Central Coast of California. He married Dorothy Stumbaugh and they were...
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On January 20, 2021, our newly-elected 46th president, Joseph R. Eiden, Jr. gave a stirring tribute to the soul of America. In it, he gave voice to our collective pain, offered us a sense of renewed purpose, and vowed to mend the deep division in our country while serving it with his "whole heart." Tt was truly a speech for the ages, widely acclaimed by Republicans, Democrats, citizens, and leaders the world over, and this photographic keepsake captures...
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He got the hang of his audience very quickly and then decided how high the pole-vault bar was to be set; and his audience ranged from the at-post-level villagers to international experts in fields of political economy, philosophy, culture, media and sometimes literature...
His speeches may not have won acceptance of the policy-makers but they must have been eye-openers to those who listened. He comes out, consistently, as a secular, radical liberal...
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Politician, soldier, naturalist, and historian-a century after the peak of his multifaceted career, Theodore Roosevelt remains a towering symbol of American optimism and progress. This collection of speeches and commentaries from 1899 through 1901 embodies the Rough Rider's enduring ideals for attaining a robust political, social, and personal life. The twenty-sixth president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) served as Chief Executive...
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Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
221 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Description
Historic moments from Mandela's inspiring life are captured in more than one hundred iconic photos from the mid-1940s through August 2009. Six key Mandela speeches are included, as well as an informative text.
18) I have a dream
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An illustrated edition of Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech.
Presents illustrations and the text of the speech given by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, in which he described his visionary dream of equality and brotherhood for humankind.
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Series
Library of America volume 60-61
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
c1992.
Physical Desc
2 v. ; 21 cm.
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