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The great American speech : words and monuments /

Fender, Stephen,

The great American speech : words and monuments / Stephen Fender. - 192 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-184) and index.

Immigrants and the American dream -- 'City on a hill' : the communitarian vision -- Inaugurals : Adams, Jefferson and America's first parties -- Webster and Lincoln : monuments and memory -- A common humanity : Kennedy confronts the Soviets -- Unity and the Union : Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. -- Six monuments and a filibuster : the other discourse of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington -- The great trial scene : The Verdict and To Kill a Mockingbird.

1780235216 9781780235219


Speeches, addresses, etc., American--History and criticism.


Criticism, interpretation, etc.

PS400 / .F463 2015

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