TY - BOOK AU - Fender,Stephen TI - The great American speech: words and monuments SN - 1780235216 AV - PS400 .F463 2015 U1 - 815 23 PY - 2015/// CY - London PB - Reaktion Books KW - Speeches, addresses, etc., American KW - History and criticism KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - fast N1 - 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 ER -