The World's Great Speeches (1999) Edition: Fourth Enlarged (1999) Edition (4)

By: Stephen J. Mckenna and Lawrence W. Lamm and Lewis Copeland

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Synopsis: Nearly 300 speeches offer provocative themes, historic parallels, and memorable quotations: Socrates, Julius Caesar, St. Francis, Martin Luther, Napoleon, Victor Hugo, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Fulton J. Sheen, Barbara Jordan, Malcolm X, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Earl of Spencer, and many others. Includes 7 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Address to Parliament on May 13th, 1940," "Farewell Address," "Gettysburg Address," "I Have a Dream," "Second Inaugural Address," "Speech to the Second Virginia Convention," and "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July."

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 944 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780486132839
Related ISBNs:: 9780486409030
Publisher:: Dover Publications
Date of Addition:: 09/13/21
Copyrighted By:: Dover
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Reference, Literature and Fiction, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Lewis Copeland
Edited by:: Lawrence W. Lamm
Edited by:: Stephen J. McKenna