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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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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' "Letter from a Mississippi Jail Cell" and James Lawson's address to SNCC's 1960 founding meeting. "This is a documentary collection that has been needed for a long time. The burgeoning interest in the civil rights movement argues for such a work, and the need to have the experience of the movement in the participants' own words demands it. Words counted during the civil rights movement, and Levy's collection . . . is the best and most accessible." Randall M. Miller Professor of History Director of American Studies Saint Joseph's University
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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.

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...-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.

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...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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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, presidential, and other types of speeches. Eight speech text accompany the analysis, along with a selected chronology of major speeches and a bibliography of important primary and secondary sources. This is a reference/teaching tool for students, teachers, and professionals in the fields of rhetoric, political communication, presidential studies, and American history.
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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.

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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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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 by communications scholars, and historical case studies.
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A Fight for Our Principles, in Presidents & Prime Ministers (Excerpt from the speech given by George W. Bush on September 20, 2001 to the Joint Session of Congress and the American People in response to September 11) » Read Now
by George W. Bush. 4 pgs.

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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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"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 argued for equal rights, and the constraints and sanctions applied to those women who affronted the norms of society's expectation that true women were seldom seen and never spoke in public. The first volume lays the foundation for the analysis of rhetorical style and content by its fine introduction and by a succession of chapters organized chronologically, with biographical sketches and excerpts from speeches. It includes a chapter specifically addressed to issues of sex, race, and class faced by African American women. Volume 2 is not a continuation of the first, but contains the texts on which the first volume is based. The biographical and historical sections are gracefully written and well organized, but the greatest value of the set lies in the actual words of the feminist leaders and Campbell's skillfull analyses. Every women's studies program must have this available. Upper-division undergraduates and above." Choice
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Selected American Speeches on Basic Issues, 1850-1950 (Includes speeches such as Bryan's "Cross of Gold" and Taft's "For the League of Nations") » Read Now
by Carl G. Brandt, Edward M. Shafter Jr. 438 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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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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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 one has studied the presidency from this vantage point. This is a vital study of American political history seen through the prism of selected presidential addresses. It reveals how presidents used major addresses to give a theme for their administration, to introduce history-making legislation or programs, or to rally a majority of the nation behind their policies.
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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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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 history of civil rights and criticising the actions of more conservative jurists, Supreme Court opinions now widely cited in Constitutional law, a long and complete oral autobiography, and much more. Marshall's impact on American race relations was greater than that of anyone else this century, for it was he who ended legal segregation in the United States. His victories as a lawyer for the NAACP broke the colour line in housing, transportation, voting, and schools by overturning the long-established 'separate-but-equal' doctrine. But Marshall was attentive to all social inequalities: no Supreme Court justice has ever been more consistent in support of freedom of expression, affirmative action, women's rights, abortion rights, and the right to consensual sex among adults; no justice has ever fought so hard against economic inequality, police brutality, and capital punishment.
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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.

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...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.

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...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...