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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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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Language
English
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This collection of speeches by historian David McCullough 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. Now, as many Americans engage in self-reflection following a bitter election campaign that has left the country divided, McCullough has collected some of his...
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Series
Library of America volume 60-61
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©1992.
Physical Desc
2 volumes ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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A two-volume set that contains more than 270 speeches, sketches, short stories, maxims, and other writings by Mark Twain.
Series
Modern eloquence volume 10
Publisher
Modern Eloquence Corp
Pub. Date
[©1923]
Physical Desc
xxii, 424 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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English
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"Lend Me Your Ears collects, in one immensely rich compendium, some two hundred of history's outstanding instances of oratorical eloquence. They are selected, arranged, and introduced by William Safire, one of America's most influential political columnists, himself a former speechwriter and language scholar. From Demosthenes mounting an angry defense against his attackers in one of his immortal philippics, to Abraham Lincoln consecrating the memory...
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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.The 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...
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Series
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
24 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Native American thanksgiving address, offered to Mother Earth in gratitude for her bounty and for the variety of her creatures, including human beings, is presented by a contemporary Mohawk chief who has delivered the address around the world.
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First HarperCollins edition 2001 [revised]
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Publisher's description: Selected from sermons delivered by C.S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses offer guidance and inspiration in a time of great doubt. These are ardent and lucid sermons that provide a compassionate vision of Christianity.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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A New York Times Bestseller
A 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 others—that reminds us of fundamental American principles.
"Insightful and inspirational, The American Spirit summons a vexed and divided nation to remember—and...
A 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 others—that reminds us of fundamental American principles.
"Insightful and inspirational, The American Spirit summons a vexed and divided nation to remember—and...
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English
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"With "a voice as clear, sincere, and wry as any I've read in current American fiction" (Joshua Cohen), Martin Riker's poignant and startlingly original novel asks how to foster a brave mind in anxious times, following a newly jobless academic rehearsing a speech on John Maynard Keynes for a surprising audience. In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to her sleeping husband and daughter. Anxious...
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Library of America volume 166-167
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
2 v. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
15) Blackbirds singing: inspiring Black women's speeches from the Civil War to the twenty-first century
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Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xii, 300 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"An uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author Janet Dewart Bell. These magnificent speakers explore ethics, morality, courage, authenticity, and leadership, and Bell's substantive introductions provide rich new context for each woman's speech, highlighting Black women speaking truth to power in service of freedom and justice"--
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First American Edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 370 pages : illlustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"An illustrated collection of 80 of history's most interesting, profound, and sometimes unknown speeches from a range of scintillating personalities such as Winston Churchill, Maya Angelou, Barack Obama, Abraham Lincoln, Groucho Marx, and Tina Fey"--
Pub. Date
1963
Physical Desc
1 box (26 x 31 x 13)
Language
English
Description
Commencement programs for the graduation ceremonies of Cape Cod Community College beginning with the year 1963. Box also contains a list of contents and commencement speeches given in 1984 by Joseph Duffey, Chancellor, University of Massachusetts and in 1986 by Edward M. Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 154
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xxxi, 915 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Series
Language
English
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"One of the greatest African American leaders and one of the most brilliant minds of his time, Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote with unsurpassed eloquence on almost all the major issues confronting the American people during his life - from the abolition of slavery to women's rights, from the Civil War to lynching, from American patriotism to black nationalism." "Between 1950 and 1975, Philip S. Foner collected the most important of Douglass's hundreds...
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Language
English
Description
"This definitive collection of beloved Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's finest speeches covers topics as varied as the law, faith, virtue, pastimes, and his heroes and friends. Featuring a foreword by longtime friend Ruth Bader Ginsburg and an intimate introduction by his youngest son, this volume includes dozens of speeches, some deeply personal, that have never before been published"--
"By any measure, Antonin Scalia lived an extraordinary...
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