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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")
by Peter B. Levy. 276 pgs.

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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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Copyright Acknowledgments

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Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1: Anticipating the Movement

Chapter 2: Desegregating the Schools

Chapter 3: The Montgomery Bus Boycott

Chapter 4: The Sit-Ins and Freedom Rides

Chapter 5: The Fires of Discord

Chapter 6: Birmingham and The Great March

Chapter 7: Mississippi: Opening the Closed Society

Chapter 8: Selma: The Bridge to Freedom

Chapter 9: Black Power

Chapter 10: The Civil Rights Movement and Other Social Movements

Chapter 11: White Resistance

Chapter 12: The Struggle Continues

Appendix: Statistical Profile of Black America

Suggested Readings

Index

About the Editor
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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?")
by Philip S. Foner, Robert James Branham. 926 pgs.

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Introduction

1: Speak to Those Who Are in Slavery

2: You Stand on the Level with the Greatest Kings on Earth

3: A Charge Delivered to the Brethren of the African Lodge

4: Pray God Give us the Strength to Bear Up Under All Our Troubles

5: Address to the People of Color

6: Eulogy for Washington

7: Universal Salvation

8: Abolition of the Slave Trade

9: A Thanksgiving Sermon

10: Mutual Interest, Mutual Benefit, and Mutual Relief

11: A Sermon Preached on the Funeral Occasion of Mary Henery

12: O! Africa

13: Valedictory Address

14: The Condition and Prospects of Haiti

15: Termination of Slavery

16: The Necessity of a General Union Among Us

17: Slavery and Colonization

19: It is Time For Us to be Up and Doing

20: Why Sit Ye Here and Die?

21: Let Us Alone

22: What If I Am a Woman?

23: Eulogy on William Wilberforce

24: The Slavery of Intermperance

25: Why a Convention is Necessary

26: Put on the Armour Of Righteousness

27: The Slave has a Friend in Heaven, Though He May Have None Here

28: On the Improvement of the Mind

29: Predudice Against the Colored Man

31: We Meet the Monster Prejudice Every Where

32: Slavery Presses Down Upon the Free People of Color

33: Let Us Do Justic to an Unfortunate People

34: The Rights of Colored Citizens in Traveling

35: We Must Assert Our Rightful Claims and Plead Our Own Cause

36: An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America

37: For the Dissolution of the Union

38: I am Free from American Slavery

39: Under the Stars and Stripes

40: I Have No Constitution, and No Country

42: A Plea for the Oppressed

43: I Won't Obey the Fugitive Slave Law

44: Ar'nt I a Woman?

45: Orators and Oratory

46: What, to the Slave, Is The Fourth of July?

47: Snakes and Geese

48: I Set Out to Escape from Slavery

49: There is no Full Enjoyment of Freedom for Anyone

50: The Triumph of Equal School Rights in Boston

52: The Negro Race, Self-Government, and the Haitian Revolution

53: Liberty for Slaves

54: If There is No Struggle There is No Progress

55: I Will Sink Or Swim with My Race

56: Break Every Yoke and Let the Oppressed Go Free

57: Should Colored Men be Subject to the Penalties of the Fugitive

58: Why is Slavery Still Rampant

60: I Do Not Believe in that Antislavery of Abraham Lincoln

61: A Plea for Free Speech

62: Let Us Take Up the Sword

63: What if the Slaves are Emancipated?

64: We Ask for Our Rights

65: Lincoln's Colonization Proposal is Anti-Christian

66: The Negroes in the United States of America

67: Freedom's Joyful Day

68: Address to the Youth

69: The Moral and Social Aspect of Africa

70: The Good Time is at Hand

71: The Position and Duties Of The Colored People

72: A Tribute to a Fallen Black Soldier

73: The Mission of the War

74: Give Us Equal Pay and We Will Go to War

76: Let the Monster Perish

77: Colored Men Standing in the Way of Their Own Race

79: An Appeal for Aid to the Freedmen

80: Deliver Us From Such a Moses

81: We Are All Bound Up Together

82: These are Revolutionary Times

83: Equal Rights for All: Three Speeches

84: To My White Fellow Citizens

85: Break Up the Plantation System

86: Justice Should Recognize No Color

87: I Claim the Rights of a Man

88: Finish the Good Work of Uniting Colored and White Working Men

89: Composite Nation

90: Then I Began To Live

91: Abolish Separate Schools

92: The Ku Klux of the North

93: The Right of Women to Vote

94: A Plea in Behalf of the Cuban Revolution

95: The Civil Rights Bill

96: Equality Before the Law

97: The Civil Rights Bill

98: The Great Problem to Be Solved

99: Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln

100: The Sioux's Revenge

101: How Long? How Long, O Heaven?

102: Socialism: The Remedy for the Evils of Society

104: The Destined Superiority of the Negro

105: Migration is the Only Remedy for Our Wrongs

106: Race Unity

108: These Evils Call Loudly for Redress

109: Negro Education - Its Help and Hindrances

110: The Stone Cut Out of the Mountain

111: Reasons for a New Political Party

112: The Present Relations of Labor and Capital

113: How Shall We Make the Women of Our Race Stronger?

114: Introduction of Master Workman Powderly

115: I Am An Anarchist

116: Mob Violence

118: How Shall We Get Our Rights?

119: Importance of Race Pride

120: Woman Suffrage

121: I Denounce the So-Called Emancipation as a Stupendous Fraud

122: Organized Resistence is Our Best Remedy

123: National Perils

124: It Is Time to Call a Halt

125: Harvard Class Day Oration

126: Education and the Problem

128: The Intellectual Progress of the Colored Women of the United States Since the Emancipation Proclamation

129: Women's Cause is One and Universal

130: Justice or Emigration Should be Our Watchword

131: The Ethics Of The Hawaiian Question

132: Address to the First National Conference of Colored Women

133: Atlanta Exposition Address

134: A Plea Against The Disfranchisement Of the Negro

137: The Awakening Of The Afro-American Woman

138: The Awakening of the Afro-American Woman

139: The Attitude of the American Mind Toward the Negro Intellect

140: The Functions of the Negro Scholar

141: Remarks To President Mckinley

142: We Must Have A Cleaner "Social Morality"

143: The Cancer of Race Prejudice

144: The Negro Will Never Acquiesce as Long as He Lives

145: The Willmington Massacre

146: The Fallacy of Industrial Education as the Solution Of the Race Problem

147: Some Facts About Southern Lynchings

148: The Burden of the Educated Colored Woman

149: The State of the Country from a Black Man's Point of View

150: My Mother as I Recall Her

151: To the Nations of the World

Index of Speeches by Author

Subject Index

About the Editors
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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")
by William Jennings Bryan. 274 pgs.

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Hayne: On the Foote Resolution

Webster

Clay

Calhoun

Corwin: On the Mexican War (1847)

Alexander H. Stephens: The South and the Public Domain

Bryant: His Welcome to Kossuth

Rufus Choate;: His Eulogy of Webster1

Sumner: On the Crime Against Kansas1

Preston S. Brooks: In Defense of His Attack on Sumner (1856)

Seward: His "Irrepressible Conflict" Speech (1858)

John Brown: His Speech to the Court at His Trial

Garrison On the Death of John Brown

Yancey: His Speech of Protest in The Charleston Convention (1860)

Jefferson Davis: On Withdrawing from the Union

Toombs: On Resigning from the Senate

Lincoln

V: The Speech at Gettysburg

Stephen A. Douglas: In the First Debate with Lincoln
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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")
by William Jennings Bryan. 270 pgs.

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North American Indians

James Otis: In Opposition to Writs of Assist Ance Delivered Before the Superior Court in Boston in February, 1761, and the Earliest Important Word Publicly Uttered in the Contro Versies Which Precipitated the Revolution. John Adams Declared That in This Oration "American Independence Was Born." Abridged. (1761)

Franklin

Patrick Henry

Washington

Samuel Adams

William Pinkney

Hamilton

Marshall

Fisher Ames

Jefferson

Eliphalet Nott

John Randolph

Everett

Jackson

Sargent S. Prentiss

Wendell Phillips

Bancroft

Benton

Emerson
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In a Perilous Hour: The Public Address of John F. Kennedy (Includes Kennedy's Inaugural Address)
by Steven R. Goldzwig, George N. Dionisopoulos. 244 pgs.

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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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Copyright Acknowledgments

CONTENTS

SERIES FOREWORD

FOREWORD

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I: CRITICAL ANALYSIS

1: John F. Kennedy: A Rhetorical Introduction

1: JOHN F. KENNEDY: A RHETORICAL INTRODUCTION

2: A New Beginning

NOTES

3: Kennedy and Civil Rights

NOTES

4: President Kennedy's Foreign Policy Discourse. a Rhetoric of Romantic Pragmatism

NOTES

5: Conclusion

5: CONCLUSION

II: COLLECTED SPEECHES

Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association

Inaugural Address Washington, D.C., January 20, 1961

Address Before the American Society of Newspaper Editors

Radio and Television Report to the American People on the Berlin Crisis

Radio and Television Report to the American People on the Soviet Buildup in Cuba

Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights

Commencement Address at American University

Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

SELECTED CHRONOLOGY OF MAJOR PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES AND REMARKS

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Great American Orators

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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Nothing to Fear: The Selected Addresses of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1932-1945 (Includes many of Roosevelt's Fireside Chats)
by Franklin D. Roosevelt, B. D. Zevin. 474 pgs.

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Illustrations

Introduction

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New Deal Speech Before the Democratic National Convention Chicago, ILlinois, July 2, 1932

First Inaugural Address Washington, D. C., March 4, 1933

First Fireside Chat-- the Banking Crisis Washington, D. C., March 12, 1933

Radio Appeal for the Nra Washington, D. C., July 24, 1933

Radio Address to the President's First Birthday Ball for the Benefit of Crippled Children Washington, D. C., January 30, 1934

Fireside Chat Reviewing the Achievements of the Seventy-Third Congress Washington, D. C., June 28, 1934

Message to Congress on Social Security Washington, D. C., January 17, 1935

Fireside Chat on the Works Relief Program Washington, D. C., April 28, 1935

Armistice Day Address at Arlington National Cemetery Arlington, VIrginia, November 11, 1935

Radio Address on Brotherhood Day Washington, D. C.; February 23, 1936

Campaign Address Chicago, ILlinois, October 14, 1936

Address on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Statue of LIberty New York City, October 28, 1936

Address Before the Inter- American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 1, 1936

Annual Message to Congress Washington, D. C., January 6, 1937

Second Inaugural Address Washington, D. C., January 20, 1937

Fireside Chat on the Plan for the Reorganization of the Judiciary Washington, D. C., March 9, 1937

Message to Congress Recommending Legislation Establishing Minimum Wages and Maximum Hours Washington, D. C., May 24, 1937

Speech Recommending A "Quarantine" of Aggressor Nations Chicago, ILlinois, October 5, 1937

Fireside Chat on Legislation to Be Recommended to the Extraordinary Session of Congress Washington, D. C., October 12, 1937

Address at the Jackson Day Dinner Washington, D. C., January 8, 1938

Fireside Chat on Economic Conditions Washington, D. C., April 14, 1938

Fireside Chat on Party Primaries Washington, D. C., June 24, 1938

Radio Address on the Third Anniversary of the Social Security Act Washington, D. C., August 15, 1938

Address at the Dedication of the International Bridge Clayton, New York, August 18, 1938

Annual Message to Congress A Warning to Dictator Nations Washington, D. C., January 4, 1939

Address to Congress on the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of Congress Washington, D. C., March 4, 1939

Fireside Chat on the European War Washington, D. C., September 3, 1939

Message to Congress Urging the Extraordinary Session to Repeal the Embargo Provision of the Neutrality Law Washington, D. C., September 21, 1939

Address at the Jackson Day Dinner Washington, D. C., January 8, 1940

Fireside Chat on National Defense Washington, D. C., May 26, 1940

Radio Address to the Democratic National Convention Accepting the Third Term Nomination Chicago, ILlinois, July 19, 1940

Address on Hemisphere Defense Dayton, Ohio, October 12, 1940

Radio Address on Selective Service Registration Day Washington, D. C., October 16, 1940

Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden New York City, October 28, 1940

Final Address of the 1940 Campaign Hyde Park, New York, November 4, 1940

Fireside Chat on National Security Washington, D. C., December 29, 1940

"Four Freedoms" Speech Washington, D. C., January 6, 1941

Third Inaugural Address Washington, D. C., January 20, 1941

Fireside Chat Outlining American Policy in the World Crisis Washington, D. C., May 27,

Message to Congress on "The Atlantic Charter" Washington, D. C., August 21, 1941

"Freedom of the Seas" Speech Washington, D. C., September 11, 1941

Navy Day Address on World Affairs Washington, D. C., October 27, 1941

War Message to Congress Washington, D. C., December 8, 1941

Fireside Chat on the Entrance of the United States into the War Washington, D. C., December 9, 1941

Fireside Chat on the Progress of the War Washington, D. C., February 23, 1942

Fireside Chat on the "Seven Point" Program Washington, D. C., April 28, 1942

Fireside Chat on Inflation Washington, D. C., September 7, 1942

Message to Congress on the State of the Union in Wartime Washington, D. C., January 7, 1943

Radio Address at the Annual Gathering of the White House Correspondents' Association Washington, D. C., February 12, 1943

Address to the Nation on the Coal Crisis Washington, D. C., May 2, 1943

Fireside Chat on the State of the War Washington, D. C., July 28, 1943

Christmas Eve Speech Report on the Teheran Conference Hyde Park, New York, December 24, 1943

Annual Message to Congress-- "The Economic Bill of Rights" Washington, D. C., January 11, 1944

Radio Address on D-Day Washington, D. C., June 6, 1944

Radio Speech on Acceptance of the Fourth Term Nomination San Diego Naval Base, July 20, 1944

Radio Broadcast on the War in the Pacific Puget Sound Navy Yard, August 12, 1944

Campaign Address Spurning "Ism" Support Washington, D. C., October 5, 1944

Campaign Address on the "Economic Bill of Rights" Chicago, ILlinois, October 28, 1944

Final Campaign Address Boston, Massachusetts, November 4, 1944

Fourth Inaugural Address Washington, D. C., January 20, 1945

Address to Congress on the Crimean Conference Washington, D. C., March 1, 1945

Speech--Written on the Eve of Death, to Have Been Delivered at the Jefferson Day Dinner Washington, D. C., April 13, 1945

Index
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Richard Nixon: Rhetorical Strategist (Includes Nixon's "My Side of the Story" speech also known as the "Checkers" speech)
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 by communications scholars, and historical case studies.

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Series Foreword

Foreword

Preface

I: Critical Analysis

1: The Nixon-Voorhis Debates: Learning How to Win

2: The Douglas Campaign: Using Communist Menace

3: The Fund Speech: The Best Defense is a Good Offense

4: The Kennedy-Nixon Debates: Important But Not Decisive

5: The Vietnam Speeches: Successful but Divisive

6: The Watergate and Resignation Speeches: Rhetoric Versus Fact

Conclusion

Notes

II: COLLECTED SPEECHES

"My Side of the Story" September 23, 1952

"Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam": November 3, 1969

"Address to the Nation on the Situation in Southeast Asia": April 30, 1970

"First Address to the Nation about the Waterqate Investigations": April 30, 1973

"Second Address to the Nation about the Watergate Investigations": August 15, 1973

"Address to the Nation Announcing Answer to the House Judiciary Committee Subpoena for Additional Presidential Tape Recordings": April 29, 1974

"Address to the Nation Announcing Decision to Resign the Office of the President of the United States": August 8, 1974

"Remarks on the Departure from the White House": August 9, 1974

Chronology of Speeches

Bibliography

Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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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)
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")
by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. 562 pgs.

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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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Introduction

1 Maria W. Miller Stewart, Lecture Delivered at The Franklin Hall, 1832

2 Address, Convention Of Anti-Slavery Women, 1838

3 Angelina Grimké [weld], Address At Pennsylvania Hall, 1838

4 Declaration of Sentiments And Resolutions, 1848

5 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Speech at The Seneca Falls Convention, 1848

6 Lucretia Coffin Mott, "Discourse on Woman," 1849

7 Sojourner Truth, Speech at The Woman's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio, 1851

8 Ernestine Potowski Rose, Speech at the National Woman's Rights Convention, Worcester, Ma, 1851

9 Clarina Howard Nichols, "The Responsibilities Of Woman," Second National Woman's Rights Convention, Worcester, Ma, 1851

10 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Address to the Legislature Of New York, 1854

11 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "A Slave's Appeal," Speech To the Judiciary Committee, New York State Legislature, 1860

12 National Woman's Rights Convention Debate, New York City, 1860

13 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "On Divorce," Speech Before The Judiciary Committee Of The New York Senate, 1861

14 Sojourner Truth, Two Speeches At The American Equal Rights Association Convention, 1867

15 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Kansas State Referendum Campaign Speech At Lawrence, Kansas, 1867

16 Susan B. Anthony, "Is It A Crime for a U.S. Citizen To Vote?" 1872-73

17 Frances E. Willard, A White Life for Two, 1890

18 Matilda Joslyn Gage, "The Dangers of the Hour," Women's National Liberal Convention, 1890

19 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, "The Solitude of Self," 1892

20 Ida B. Wells, ",Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases," 1892, With Mary Church Terrell's Introduction., 1893

21 Mary Church Terrell, "What It Means to Be Colored in the Capital of The United States," 1906

22 Anna Howard, Shaw, "The Fundamental Principle of A Republic," 1915

23 Carrie Chapman Catt, Presidential Address, 1902

24 Carrie Chapman Catt, "The Crisis," Atlantic City, Nj, 1916

25 Carrie Chapman Catt, "Address to The United States Congress," 1917

26 Crystal Eastman, "Now We Can Begin," 1920

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Index

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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")
by Carl G. Brandt, Edward M. Shafter Jr. 438 pgs.

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Introduction

Part One: Time of Civil Strife: Slavery And States' Rights

Henry Clay: (1777-1852)

Compromise Speech of 1850

John C. Calhoun: (1782-1850)

Compromise Speech of 1850

Daniel Webster: (1782-1852)

Compromise Speech of 1850

Stephen A. Douglas: (1813-1861)

The Kansas-Nebraska Bill

Abraham Lincoln: (1809-1865)

The Cooper Institute Address

Henry W. Grady: (1850-1889)

The Race Problem in the South

Part Two: The Dawn of the Twentieth Century: American Nationalism And Expansion

William Jennings Bryan: (1860-1925)

The Cross of Gold Speech

Robert G. Ingersoll: (1833-1899)

The Chicago and New York Gold Speech

Albert J. Beveridge: (1862-1927)

The Star of Empire

Carl Schurz: (1829-1906)

The Policy of Imperialism

Theodore Roosevelt: (1859-1919)

The Man with the Muck Rake

Part Three: World Wars I and Ii: Crises and Controversies

Woodrow Wilson: (1856-1924)

"Too Proud to Fight" Speech

War Message

Robert M. Lafollette: (1855-1925)

Against War with Germany

William H. Taft: (1857-1930)

For the League of Nations

Henry Cabot Lodge: (1850-1924)

Against the Constitution Of The League of Nations

William E. Borah: (1865-1940)

Against the League of Nations

Franklin a Roosevelt: (1882-1945)

A Plea for Neutrality

America's Answer To Japan's Challenge

Selected Bibliography
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My Fellow Americans: Presidential Addresses That Shaped History
by James C. Humes. 316 pgs.

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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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Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

1: The Farewell Address: Washington's Declaration of Independence in Foreign Policy

2: Jefferson's First Inaugural: The Revolutionary as Reconciler

3: The Monroe Doctrine: The Whispered Warning

4: The Jackson Bank Veto: The War Against the Eastern Establishment

5: Polk's Inaugural: Action as Eloquence

6: The Gettysburg Address: The Great American Poem

7: The Cleveland Tariff Message: The Battle Against Big Business

8: The Big Stick: Monroe Doctrine ý la Theodore Roosevelt

9: Wilson's Declaration of War: A Latter-Day Paul on Mars Hill

10: The Sesquicentennial Address: The Sermon at the Shrine

11: Franklin Roosevelt's First Inaugural: The Rhetoric of Recovery

12: Harry Truman's Acceptance Address: The Turnip Day Talk

13: Eisenhower's Farewell Address: An Old Soldier's Warning

14: The Kennedy Inaugural: A Young Warrior's Call to Arms

15: President Nixon's Toast to Chairman Mao: The Beijing Breakthrough

16: The Reagan Address at the Palace of Westminster: A Prophecy for a Free World

Bibliography

Index

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Victory: War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill
by Winston S. Churchill, Charles Eade. 307 pgs.

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Review of the War: A SPEECH TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS JANUARY 18, 1945

THE GENERAL ELECTION

THE WAR
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Barbara C. Jordan: Selected Speeches
by Barbara C. Jordan, Sandra Parham. 144 pgs.

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Introduction

Preface

Barbara Charline Jordan 1936-1996

The Barbara Jordan Archives

The Constitution

Nothing New Under the Sun

Moving on from Watergate

Reflections on the Constitution

It's More Than a Lifeless Archives

National Archives Address

Women and the Constitution: the Challenge

Government and Democracy

The Law, the Promise, and the Power

In Search of Humanity

Civil Liberties: Inoperative? Inaudible? Unintelligible? Expletive Deleted?

Can We Govern Ourselves?

Harvard University Commencement Address

Council on Foundations Keynote Address

Civil Rights and Diversity

E Pluribus Unum: Myth or Reality? One from Many

How Do We Live with Each Other's Deepest Differences?

Does the Idea of Civil Rights Remain a Good Idea as We Approach the Year 2000 A.D.?

Ethics

The Rebirth of Ethics -- a Pervasive Challenge

Ethical Dilemmas of Leadership

Famous Speeches

Democratic National Convention Address

Change: from What to What?

Testimony Before the House Judiciary Committee (watergate)

Statement Given to Time Magazine on Retirement from Congress
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Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences
by Thurgood Marshall, Mark V. Tushnet. 576 pgs.

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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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Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences

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Foreword

Introduction

Part I Legal Briefs and Oral Arguments

Part II Writings and Speeches as a Lawyer

Part III Writings as a Judge

Part IV Judicial Opinions

Part V Reminiscences

Selected Bibliography

Appendix: Annotated List of Important Decisions

Permissions Acknowledgments

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The World's Famous Orations, Vol. 1: Greece (Includes speeches by Socrates, Isocrates, Demonsthenes and other Greek orators)
by William Jennings Bryan. 244 pgs.

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PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS

Achilles: HIS REPLY TO THE ENVOYS'

Pericles

Cleon: ON THE PUNISHMENT OF THE MYTILENEANS (427 B.C.)

Alcibiades

Nicias: AGAINST THE SICILIAN EXPEDITION (414 B.C.)

Hermocrates: ON THE UNION OF SICILY AGAINST INVADERS1 (416 B.C.)

Lysias: AGAINST ERATOSTHENES1 (403 B.C.)

Socrates

Isocrates on the Union of Greece to Resist Persia1

Isaeus in the Suit Against DicÆogenes and Leochares1

Demosthenes

Aeschines Against Ctesiphon; Or, on the Crown1 (330 B.C.)

Dinarchus: AGAINST DEMOSTHENES1 (824 B.C.)
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The World's Famous Orations, Vol. 2: Rome (Includes speeches by Julius Caesar, Cicero, Seneca, and other Roman orators)
by William Jennings Bryan. 258 pgs.

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Publius Cornelius Scipio: To His Army Before Battle

Hannibal: Address to His Soldiers

Cato the Censor: In Support of the Oppian Law (215 B.C.)

Scipio Africanus Major: To His Mutinous Troops (203 B.C.)

The Gracchi

Caius Memmius: On a Corrupt Oligarchy (about 110 B.C.)

Caius Marius: On Being Accused of a Low Origin (106 B.C.)

Cicero

Mark Antony: His Oration Over the Dead Body Of Cæsar

Catiline

Julius Caesar: On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators (63 B.C.)

Cato the Younger: On the Punishment of the Catiline Conspirators (63 B.C.)

Germanicus

Seneca: To Nero When in Disfavor (62 A.D.)

Otho

Agricola To His Army in Scotland1 (84 A.D.)

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