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245 0 0 _aWords that ring through time :
_bfrom Moses and Pericles to Obama : fifty-one of the most important speeches in history and how they changed our world /
_c[edited by] Terry Golway ; foreword by Lewis Lapham.
246 3 0 _aFrom Moses and Pericles to Obama : fifty-one of the most important speeches in history and how they changed our world
246 3 0 _aFifty-one of the most important speeches in history and how they changed our world
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bOverlook Press,
_c2009.
300 _a416 p. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [414]-416).
505 0 0 _tMoses bids Israel farewell --
_tFuneral oration by Pericles (Athens, 430 BCE) --
_tCicero's first oration against Catiline (Rome, 63 BCE) --
_tJesus and the blessed (Galilee, circa 30 AD) --
_tMuhammad : Turn thy face (Arabian peninsula, circa 620 AD) --
_tUrban II declares a crusade (Clermont, 1095) --
_tMartin Luther refuses to recant (Diet of Worms, 1521) --
_tThomas More confronts his accuser (London, July 7, 1535) --
_tElizabeth I faces the Armada : "I myself will be your general" (Tilbury, 1588) --
_tJohn Winthrop's "City upon a hill" (June, 1630) --
_tOliver Cromwell dismisses Parliament, "In the name of God, go!" (London, April 20, 1653) --
_tPatrick Henry makes the case for liberty, or death (Virginia, March 25, 1775) --
_tWashington addresses dissidents in the army (Newburgh, March 15, 1783) --
_tCharles Fox assails the East India Company (London, December 1, 1783) --
_tRobespierre justifies terror (Paris, Feb. 5, 1794) --
_tGeorges Danton : We must dare, dare again, always dare (Paris, September 2, 1792) --
_tThomas Jefferson and the world's best hope (Washington, DC, March 4, 1801) --
_tRed Jacket defends Native American religions (Central New York, 1805) --
_tNapoleon bids farewell to the Old Guard (April 20, 1814) --
_tSimoÌn Bolivar rallies South America (Angostura, September 15, 1819) --The cause of Old Ireland : Daniel O'Connell's last monster meeting (October 1, 1843) --
_tKarl Marx on free trade (Brussels, January 9, 1848) --
_tFrederick Douglass's Fourth of July speech (Rochester, New York, 1852) --
_tAbraham Lincoln's address at Cooper Institute (New York, February 27, 1860) --
_tGaribaldi addresses his troops : "To arms, then, all of you!" (Naples, September, 1860) --
_tSusan B. Anthony : A woman's right to suffrage : "Aren't women persons?" (Monroe County, 1873) --
_tWilliam Jennings Bryan and the cross of gold (Chicago, July 9, 1896) --
_tKing Albert of Belgium defies the Kaiser's army (Brussels, August 4, 1914) --
_tPadraig Pearse : Ireland unfree will never be at peace (Dublin, August 1, 1915) --
_tHelen Keller, Strike against war (New York, January 5, 1916) --
_tWoodrow Wilson's fourteen points (Washington, January 8, 1918) --
_tGandhi gives voice to non-violence and non-cooperation (Abmadabad, India, March 18, 1922) --
_tSun Yat-sen pleads for Pan-Asian resistance to Western imperialism (Kobe, Japan, November 28, 1924) --
_tHaile Selassie pleads for his country (Geneva, June 30, 1936) --
_tFranklin Roosevelt sees the ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished (Washington, January 20, 1937) --
505 8 0 _tAdolf Hitler denounces umbrella-carrying types (Weimar, November 6, 1938) --
_tLou Gehrig, the "Luckiest man on the face of the Earth." (Yankee Stadium, the Bronx, July 4, 1939) --
_tWinston Churchill, first speech as Prime Minister : "Blood, toil, tears and sweat" (London, May 13, 1940) --
_tFranklin Roosevelt's D-Day prayer : "They fight to end conquest" (Washington, June 6, 1944) --
_tEmperor Hirohito addresses his subjects : "We have resolved to pave the way to a grand peace" (Tokyo, August 15, 1945) --
_tHo Chi Minh declares independence for Vietnam (Ba Dinh Square, September 2, 1945) --
_tWinston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech (Fulton, Missouri, March 5, 1946) --
_tNikita Khrushchev's secret speech (Moscow, February 5, 1956) --
_tJohn Kennedy in Berlin : "Ich bein ein Berliner!" (Berlin, June 26, 1963) --
_tBarbara Jordan addresses the House Judiciary Committee : "Today I am an inquisitor" (Washington, July 24, 1974) --
_tAnwar Sadat addresses the Israeli Knesset : "A bold drive towards new horizons" (Jerusalem, November 20, 1977) --
_tElie Wiesel pleads with Ronald Reagan : "Your place is not there, Mr. President" (Washington, April 19, 1985) --
_tRonald Reagan on the Challenger disaster : "The surly bonds of Earth" (Washington, January 28, 1986) --
_tMargaret Thatcher's sermon on the mound : "We must work and use our talents to create wealth" (Edinburgh, May 21, 1988) --
_tNelson Mandela's inaugural address as President of South Africa : "Glory and hope to newborn liberty" (Pretoria, May 10, 1994) --
_tBarack Obama confronts race and religion : "A more perfect union" (March 18, 2008).
650 0 _aSpeeches, addresses, etc.
700 1 _aGolway, Terry,
_d1955-
700 1 _aLapham, Lewis H.
856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
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856 4 2 _3Publisher description
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