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    Let Freedom Ring: A Documentary History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement (Includes speeches such as King's "I Have a Dream" and "Where Do We Go from Here," Parks' "Recollections," and Jackson's "Common Ground and Common Sense") » Read Now

    by Peter B. Levy. 276 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    This book traces the story of the civil rights movement through the written and spoken words of those who participated in it. It includes both classic texts, such as Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," and lesser-known gems, such as Robert Moses'...
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    Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900 (Includes speeches such as Truth's "Arn't I a Woman," Stanton's "A Plea for the Oppressed," and Douglass' "What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?") » Read Now

    by Philip S. Foner, Robert James Branham. 926 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...audience. 57 Many of the speeches included in this volume were...accounts of Sojourner Truth s famous Akron speech of 1851 makes...opinion that not since the famous speech...
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    The World's Famous Orations, Vol. 9: America II (1818-1865) (Includes speeches such as Lincoln's "The Gettysburg Address" and Davis' "On Withdrawing from the Union") » Read Now

    by William Jennings Bryan. 274 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...-i- THE WORLD'S FAMOUS ORATIONS WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN...is the one to which Webster made his famous reply on January 26. Webster had already...Spanish America in 1808...
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    The World's Famous Orations, Vol. 8: America I (1761-1837) (Includes speeches such as Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!" and Hamilton's "On the Adoption of the Federal Constitution") » Read Now

    by William Jennings Bryan. 270 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...misrepresented and abused here, in papers and pamphlets and speeches, . . . as ungrateful and unreasonable and unjust; in having...Virginia, in the old church in Richmond...
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    In a Perilous Hour: The Public Address of John F. Kennedy (Includes Kennedy's Inaugural Address) » Read Now

    by Steven R. Goldzwig, George N. Dionisopoulos. 244 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    This first book-length analysis of Kennedy's public address defines how he aroused Americans to action. This rigorously researched study offers both an in-depth analysis about the development of President Kennedy as a public speaker with a balanced view of his civil rights, foreign policy...
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    Nothing to Fear: The Selected Addresses of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1932-1945 (Includes many of Roosevelt's Fireside Chats) » Read Now

    by Franklin D. Roosevelt, B. D. Zevin. 474 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...closely identified with the battle-scarred old campaigner as his famous brown derby. Smith won the nomination but failed in the...confidence and hope. B. D. ZEVIN Euclid...
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    Richard Nixon: Rhetorical Strategist (Includes Nixon's "My Side of the Story" speech also known as the "Checkers" speech) » Read Now

    by Hal W. Bochin. 244 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    This volume examines the combination of personal characteristics and artistic choices that made Nixon a successful, albeit extremely controversial, public speaker. The book is based on Nixon's own writings and primary materials found in special collections, as well as a number of rhetorical studies...
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    Man Cannot Speak for Her, Vol. 2 (Includes speeches such as Anthony's "Is It a Crime for a U.S. Citizen to Vote?" and Shaw's "The Fundamental Principle of a Republic") » Read Now

    by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. 562 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    "The right to cast a ballot from a feminine hand occupied the attention and efforts of hundreds of women for more than a century in the U.S. In these two volumes Campbell (University of Minnesota) provides a basic understanding of two processes: the development of the rhetoric used by the women who...
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    My Fellow Americans: Presidential Addresses That Shaped History » Read Now

    by James C. Humes. 316 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    The presidency, in Theodore Roosevelt's famous words, is a "Bully Pulpit." Humes, a former White House speechwriter, here gives us a unique perspective on presidential speech writing. No other book has examined the major presidential addresses--their construction and their impact--as history, and no...
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    Victory: War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill » Read Now

    by Winston S. Churchill, Charles Eade. 307 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...an undue share of what is undoubtedly the greatest American battle of the war, and will, I believe, be regarded as an ever famous American victory. I never hesitate, as the...
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    Barbara C. Jordan: Selected Speeches » Read Now

    by Barbara C. Jordan, Sandra Parham. 144 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
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    Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences » Read Now

    by Thurgood Marshall, Mark V. Tushnet. 576 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Much has been written about Thurgood Marshall, but this is the first book to collect his own words. Here are briefs he filed as a lawyer, oral arguments for the landmark school desegregation cases, investigative reports on race riots and racism in the Army, speeches and articles outlining the...
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    The World's Famous Orations, Vol. 1: Greece (Includes speeches by Socrates, Isocrates, Demonsthenes and other Greek orators) » Read Now

    by William Jennings Bryan. 244 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...propriety of making a collection of the famous orations of the world for the benefit...selecting the more important of the great speeches there is little room for the...
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    The World's Famous Orations, Vol. 2: Rome (Includes speeches by Julius Caesar, Cicero, Seneca, and other Roman orators) » Read Now

    by William Jennings Bryan. 258 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...The private soldiers ____________________ 1 Of the speeches of the Gracchi only a few fragments have come down to us...same opportunity of examining them, of arguing and...

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