Lend me your ears : great speeches in history
Record details
- ISBN: 0393059316
- ISBN: 9780393059311
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Physical Description:
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1157 p. ; 25 cm. - Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c2004.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Updated and expanded." Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Memorials and patriotic speeches -- War and revolution speeches -- Tributes and eulogies -- Debates and argumentation -- Trials -- Gallows and farewell speeches -- Sermons -- Inspirational speeches -- Lectures and instructive speeches -- Speeches of social responsibility -- Media speeches -- Political speeches -- Commencement speeches -- Undelivered speeches. |
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Subject: | Speeches, addresses, etc |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | PN 6122 .L46 2004 | 30775305463714 | General Collection | Available | - |
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Summary
Lend Me Your Ears : Great Speeches in History
The definitive compendium of classic and modern oratory expanded--with a new preface on what makes a speech "great." An instant classic when it was first published a decade ago and now enriched by seventeen new speeches, Lend Me Your Ears contains more than two hundred outstanding moments of oratory. It is selected, arranged, and introduced by William Safire, who honed his skills as a presidential speechwriter. He is considered by many to be America's most influential political columnist and most elegant explicator of our language. Covering speeches from Demosthenes to George W. Bush, this latest edition includes the words of Cromwell to the "Rump Parliament," Orson Welles eulogizing Darryl F. Zanuck, General George Patton exhorting his troops before D-Day, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking on Bush v. Gore . A new section incorporates speeches that were never delivered: what Kennedy was scheduled to say in Dallas; what Safire wrote for Nixon if the first moon landing met with disaster; and what Clinton originally planned to say after his grand jury testimony but swapped for a much fiercer speech.