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Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Collection of over 200 speeches from throughout history, including selections by late twentieth-century speakers like President Bill Clinton and Colin Powell, arranged by theme and occasion, and introduced with commentary by political columnist William Safire.
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Language
English
Description
Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades.00The Source of Self-Regard is brimming with all the elegance of mind and style, the literary prowess and moral compass that are Toni Morrison's inimitable hallmark. It is divided into three parts: the first is introduced by a powerful prayer...
Publisher
Prakash Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This edition is populated with the rhetoric of people whose words created and changed history. The master orators' artfully delivered and perfectly worded speeches, transcending place and time, caught the fancy, imagination, and heart of their listeners and heralded people and nations into better, stronger times. A must-have for every reader, this leather-bound edition is equipped with a ribbon bookmark, gilded edges, and beautiful endpapers."
5) India, 1931
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Publisher
RosettaBooks / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A collection of speeches given by Churchill in the 1930s, fiercely opposing the India Bill and India home rule. In 1931, Britain's Conservative Party proposed the India Bill, a piece of legislation that would make significant changes to the way India governed itself under British rule. Winston Churchill was against the bill and defended his position with characteristic conviction and oratory brilliance. This book contains seven speeches and three...
7) A treasury of great American speeches: our country's life and history in the words of its great men
Author
Publisher
Hawthorn Books
Pub. Date
[1959]
Language
English
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The most important and well-known speeches of modern times. Seen and heard in this original footage are the dramatic highlights of speeches from U. S. Presidents, politicians and world leaders that changed the course of history and inspired millions worldwide. This collection contains three volumes.
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Publisher
Fall River Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The speeches collected in this volume—one or more for each of the forty-six elected American presidents—are historical documents. The subjects that they address, however, are perennial themes that define our democracy and that recur in various forms with each new administration’s legislation: state laws versus federal laws, the guarantee of the individual citizen’s right to vote in free and fair elections, the separation of church and state,...
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Series
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English
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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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Language
English
Description
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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Language
English
Description
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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Language
Español
Description
El texto propone un recorrido analítico sobre un aspecto destacado de La Bucanera de Alejandra Pizarnik. A partir de un estudio poco investigado, inscripto dentro de las propuestas del neobarroco sarduniano, planteamos una indagación sobre los límites y fronteras de la palabra, de la ruptura de la lógica de la causalidad, de los usos de la parodia y de otros efectos asociados a la carnavalización, en tanto operaciones discursivas que Pizarnik...
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Language
English
Description
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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Series
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English
Description
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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Language
English
Description
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...
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Contains the unabridged texts of eighty-three speeches by Americans such as Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Franklin Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton, presented in chronological order from 1865 to 1997.
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Language
English
Description
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
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Harambee is a traditional Swahili chant meaning heave-ho or pull together the slogan for a united Kenya. Harambee Day or Independence Day is celebrated in this small town in North Kenya with political speeches and an auction at the native school.
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