Lend me your ears : great speeches in history

Safire, William, 1929-2009 (Added Author).

Summary: A compendium of more than two hundred classic and modern speeches includes Orson Welles eulogizing Darryl F. Zanuck, George Patton exhorting his D-Day troops, King Edward VIII abdicating his throne, and the never-delivered speech John F. Kennedy was scheduled to give in Dallas.

Record details

ISBN: 0393059316
ISBN: 9780393059311
Physical Description: print
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.