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_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 |
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_aNew York : _bOverlook Press, _c2009. |
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_a416 p. ; _c24 cm. |
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504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [414]-416). | ||
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_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) -- |
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_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). |
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_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1007/2010275754-b.html |
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_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1007/2010275754-d.html |
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