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The World s Great Speeches: Fourth Enlarged (1999) Edition
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This outstanding compendium of 292 great speeches contains addresses from nearly every historical era and nation, from the formal orations of ancient Greece and the speeches of Julius Caesar, to modernday addresses by Nelson Mandela, Ronald Regan and Vclav Havel.Among the memorable speeches included here are Pericles funeral oration, St. Bernard s advocacy of the Second Crusade, William Jennings Bryan s Cross of Gold speech, Winston Churchill s Blood, Sweat and Tears address, Richard Nixon s speech to the astronauts on the moon, Malcolm X s address on the Black Revolution, and many more. Readers will also find timehonored declamations by St. Francis, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Napoleon, Victor Hugo, Leon Trotzky, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Dylan Thomas, Fulton J. Sheen, Adlai Stevenson, Walter Reuther, and many othersover 240 speakers in all.For this newly updated edition, Stephen J. McKenna, Assistant Professor of English at The Catholic University of America, has added 14 important speeches delivered between 1974 and 1997. These new selections include Barbara Jordan s Opening Statement to the House Judiciary Committee for the Nixon Impeachment Proceedings (1974); Alexander Solzhenitsyn s Harvard Commencement Address (1978); Ronald Regan s First Inaugural Address (1981): Nelson Mandela s Address to a Rally in Cape Town on His Release from Prison (1990); Vclav Havel s Address to a Joint Session of Congress (1990); the Earl of Spencer s Tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales (1997); and more.Rich with drama of history, the speeches in this volume will serve you time and time again by suggesting provocative themes and historical parallels, and by providing apt quotations, important reference passages, and a wide range of other valuable material.
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