Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches in History.

Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches in History.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Safire, William
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newburyport : RosettaBooks, 2014.
Subjects:
Speeches, addresses, etc.
speeches (documents)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; An Introductory Address; I. Memorials and Patriotic Speeches; Pericles Extols the Glory That Is Greece at the Funeral of Its Fallen Sons; Roman Empress Theodora Refuses to Flee; Founding Father Gouverneur Morris Defines National Greatness; Daniel Webster Speaks at the Dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument; Lecturer Frances Wright Speaks on Independence Day; Lincoln Rededicates the Union at Gettysburg; Mark Twain Celebrates the Fourth of July; President Calvin Coolidge Affirms His Faith in Massachusetts.
  • Interior Secretary Harold Ickes Lashes Isolationists and DefeatistsJudge Learned Hand Evokes the Spirit of Liberty; Underground Fighter Menachem Begin Pledges His Group's Allegiance to the Newborn State of Israel; Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson Defines the Nature of Patriotism; General Douglas MacArthur Reminds West Point Cadets of Duty, Honor, Country; II. War and Revolution Speeches; Catiline the Conspirator Turns and Fights; Pope Urban II Launches the First Crusade; Queen Elizabeth Inveighs against the Spanish Armada; Patrick Henry Ignites the American Revolution.
  • An Indian Chief Pledges HelpGeneral Washington Talks His Officers Out of Insurrection; Richard Price, an English Cleric, Hails the Revolutions; Revolutionist Georges-Jacques Danton Demands Death for the Squeamish; Napoleon Exhorts His Troops against France's Enemies; Garibaldi Prepares Italy's Guerrillas for Battle; Jefferson Davis Takes His Leave of the U.S. Senate; Chief Joseph Surrenders; President Woodrow Wilson Presents an Ideal to the War Congress; Lenin Defends Proletarian Dictatorship; Mussolini Justifies His Invasion of Ethiopia; Hitler Declares Germany's Intentions.
  • Winston Churchill Braces Britons to Their TaskChurchill Rallies the British People after the "Miracle of Deliverance" at Dunkirk; Stalin Commands the Soviet Peoples to Scorch the Earth Being Taken by Hitler's Troops; President Franklin D. Roosevelt Asks Congress to Declare War on Japan; General Montgomery Takes Command and Draws the Line at El Alamein; Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Acts to Defend the Falkland Islands; Israel's Yitzhak Rabin Shakes Hands with His Lifelong Enemy; III. Tributes and Eulogies; Mark Antony Urges Mourners to Vengeance over the Body of Julius Caesar.
  • Edmund Burke Laments the Death of Marie AntoinetteHenry Lee Remembers George Washington; Daniel Webster Puts a Speech in the Mouth of 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 Speaks at His Brother's Grave; James Blaine of Maine Eulogizes Assassinated President Garfield; Jane Addams Praises George Washington; Rabbi Stephen S. Wise Offers a Tribute to Lincoln; Will Rogers Eulogizes Woodrow Wilson.

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