Best Speeches In History - April 2024

Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History (Updated and Expanded Edition)

The definitive compendium of classic and modern oratory expanded―with a new preface on what makes a speech "great." An instant classic when it was first published a decade ago and now enriched by seventeen new speeches, Lend Me Your Ears contains more than two hundred outstanding moments of oratory. It is selected, arranged, and introduced by William Safire, who honed his skills as a presidential speechwriter. He is considered by many to be America's most influential political columnist and most elegant explicator of our language. Covering speeches from Demosthenes to George W. Bush, this la... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0393059316
• ASIN: 0393059316
• ISBN: 0393059316
• Brand: W W Norton Company
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, this collection of speeches is “the most valuable kind of book, the kind that benefits mind and heart” (Peggy Noonan).   This third edition of the bestselling collection of classic and modern oratory offers numerous examples of the greatest speeches ever delivered—from the ancient world to the modern. Speeches in Lend Me Your Ears span a broad stretch of history, from Gen. George Patton inspiring Allied troops on the eve of D-Day to Pericles’s impassioned eulogy for fallen Greek soldiers during the Peloponnesian War; and from Jesus of Nazareth�... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07H17B6LX
• ASIN: B07H17B6LX
• Manufacturer: RosettaBooks

The World's Great Speeches: Fourth Enlarged (1999) Edition

This outstanding compendium of 292 great speeches contains addresses from nearly every historical era and nation, from the formal orations of ancient Greece and the speeches of Julius Caesar, to modern-day addresses by Nelson Mandela, Ronald Regan and Václav Havel.Among the memorable speeches included here are Pericles' funeral oration, St. Bernard's advocacy of the Second Crusade, William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech, Winston Churchill's "Blood, Sweat and Tears" address, Richard Nixon's speech to the astronauts on the moon, Malcolm X's address on the Black Revolution, and many mor... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0486409031
• UPC: 800759409037
• ASIN: 0486409031
• ISBN: 9780486409030
• Brand: Dover Publications
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Unfreedom of the Press

From five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, FOX News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin comes a groundbreaking and enlightening book that shows how the great tradition of the American free press has degenerated into a standardless profession that has squandered the faith and trust of the American public, not through actions of government officials, but through its own abandonment of reportorial integrity and objective journalism.Unfreedom of the Press is not just another book about the press. Levin shows how those entrusted with news reporting today are destroying freedom of the press... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1476773092
• ASIN: 1476773092
• ISBN: 1476773092
• Brand: Threshold Editions
• Manufacturer: Threshold Editions

History's Greatest Speeches (Dover Thrift Editions)

Ideal for classroom use, this anthology also provides a valuable tool for preparing or performing public speeches. Twenty of the world's most influential and stirring public lectures include Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, and Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!" oration.Additional speeches include Pericles' fifth-century BC funeral oration, George Washington's 1784 resignation speech, Martin Luther's 1520 address to the Diet of Worms, and Jonathan Edwards' 1741 sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Other orations include Soj... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00I17XWW2
• ASIN: B00I17XWW2
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Words that Ring Through Time: The Fifty Most Important Speeches in History and How they Changed Our World

The fifty most important speeches of all time: their context, history, and meaning for our world The speeches remembered by history are rarely remembered in context; but it was almost always the context, not the speech itself, that made each address so significant. Terry Golway has selected fifty speeches that changed the world through the sheer power of their oratory. From Moses to Mandela and others from across time and around the world, Golway's selections are each illuminated with an insightful essay setting the speech squarely in its historical contexts and detailing its impact and conse... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1590202317
• ASIN: 1590202317
• ISBN: 1590202317
• Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces.Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin Laden.Sea Stories begins in 1960 at the American Officers' Club in France, where Allied officers and their wives gathered to have drinks and tell s... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1538729741
• ASIN: 1538729741
• ISBN: 1538729741
• Brand: Grand Central Publishing
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

Great Speeches of the 20th Century (Dover Thrift Editions)

• ASIN: B00N3L2X2G
• ASIN: B00N3L2X2G
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Lend Me Your Ears: All You Need to Know about Making Speeches and Presentations

The room darkens and grows hushed, all eyes to the front as the screen comes to life. Eagerly the audience starts to thumb the pages of their handouts, following along breathlessly as the slides go by one after the other. . . We're not sure what the expected outcome was when Power Point first emerged as the industry standard model of presentation, but reality has shown few positive results. Research reveals that there is much about this format that audiences positively dislike, and that the old school rules of classical rhetoric are still as effective as they ever were for maximizing impact. R... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0195300750
• ASIN: 0195300750
• ISBN: 0195300750
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.

Chambers Book of Great Speeches Book

The Chambers Book of Great Speeches is the most comprehensive guide available to the inspired and inspiring speeches that have shaped the world we live in.There are over 250 speakers covered, from Bella Abzug to Emile Zola. Each speaker is introduced with a brief biography setting them in context.Each speech also has an introduction explaining its setting, and is accompanied by marginal notes which fill in any background information.The speeches themselves are international in scope and stretch throughout world history, from ancient times through to twenty-first century orators such as Barack ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1471801748
• ASIN: 1471801748
• ISBN: 1471801748
• Manufacturer: Chambers

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

A finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in NonfictionA New York Times Notable Book Bloomberg Best Book of 2018The New York Times bestseller!Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising—on campus as well as nationally. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0735224897
• ASIN: 0735224897
• ISBN: 0735224897
• Manufacturer: Penguin Press

Their Eyes Were Watching God

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hur... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0061120065
• ASIN: 0061120065
• ISBN: 0061120065
• Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
• Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Schleiermacher: On Religion: Speeches To Its Cultured Despisers (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)

Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers is a classic of modern Protestant religious thought that powerfully displays the tensions between the Romantic and Enlightenment accounts of religion. This edition presents the original 1799 text in English for the first time. Richard Crouter's introduction places the work in the milieu of early German Romanticism, Kant criticism, the revival of Spinoza and Plato studies, and theories of literary criticism and of the physical sciences. This fully annotated edition also contains a chronology and notes on further reading.

• ASIN: 0521479754
• ASIN: 0521479754
• ISBN: 0521479754
• Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
• Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

Napoleon Hill's Greatest Speeches: An Official Publication of The Napoleon Hill Foundation

We are pleased to present this never before published collection from the one and only, Napoleon Hill.Along with other never before published material, this volume includes the speech that inspired the worldwide bestseller Think and Grow Rich.With a foreword by Napoleon’s grandson Dr. J.B. Hill and introductory comments by Don Green, Director of The Napoleon Hill Foundation, personal letters from family members and Senator Jennings Randolph, this fascinating exploration of the speeches given by the pioneer of the personal development movement is packed with a wealth of information.It is a re... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1937879801
• ASIN: 1937879801
• ISBN: 1937879801
• Manufacturer: Sound Wisdom LLC

The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

• ASIN: 0345350685
• ASIN: 0345350685
• ISBN: 0345350685
• Brand: Ballantine Books
• Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

Putting the Antics Back in Semantics Speech-Language Pathologist : SLP Gifts, Speech Therapist Notebook, Best Speech Therapist, Floral SLP Gift for Notes Journaling, Speech Therapist Gifts, Speech Therapy Gifts, 6x9 College Ruled Notebook

This SLP notebook features a beautiful floral journal design and makes a perfect Speech Language Pathologist Gift! SLP gifts are so nice to give at the end of the school year or when dismissed from

• UPC: 761770274

The Great Dissent : How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind--and Changed the History of Free Speech in America

A gripping intellectual history reveals how Oliver Wendell Holmes became a free-speech advocate and established the modern understanding of the First AmendmentNo right seems more fundamental to American public life than freedom of speech. Yet

• UPC: 21919355
• Rating: 4.111

Life of David Crockett, the Original Humorist and Irrepressible Backwoodsman : Comprising His Early History; His Bear Hunting and Other Adventures; His Services in the Creek War; His Electioneering Speeches and Career in Congress; With His Triumphal Tour Through the Northern States, and Services in the Texas War. to Which Is Added an

Life of David Crockett, the Original Humorist and Irrepressible Backwoodsman: Comprising

• UPC: 376662848
• Rating: 2.75

Truth Is the Best Propaganda : Edward R. Murrow's Speeches in the Kennedy Years

Truth is the Best Propaganda: Edward R. Murrow's Speeches in the Kennedy

• UPC: 53636863

Pillars of Salt : An History of Some Criminals Executed in This Land, for Capital Crimes: With Some of Their Dying Speeches, Collected and Published, for the Warning of Such as Live in Destructive Courses of Ungodliness: Whereto Is Added, for The...

Title: Pillars of salt: an history of some criminals executed in this land, for capital crimes: with some of their dying speeches, collected and published, for the warning of such as live in destructive courses

• UPC: 53538046

The Oratorical Year Book for 1865 : Being a Collection of the Best Cotemporary Speeches Delivered in Parliament, at the Bar, and on the Platform

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,

• UPC: 587433497

Hate Speech : The History of an American Controversy

The First Amendment protects even the most offensive forms of expression: racial slurs, hateful religious propaganda, and cross-burning. No other county in the world offers the same kind of protection to offensive speech. How did

• UPC: 26886123

Locked Up with God : My Best Thirteen Speeches by Captain Guy D. Gruters, Vietnam POW

The title of this book reflects that it is a book about being locked up with God. This happened to me during the Vietnam War. I was an American prisoner of war - P.O.W. I

• UPC: 53407278

The Writings & Speeches of Edmund Burke : Volume VII - Speeches in Parliament; Abridgement of English History

This 12-volume set contains the complete life works of EDMUND BURKE (1729-1797), Irish political writer and statesman. Educated at a Quaker boarding school and at Trinity College in Dublin, Burke's eloquence gained him a high

• UPC: 53264354

Substance of a Speech on the Best Means of Counteracting the Existing Monopoly in the Supplying of Beer...

Substance of a Speech on the Best Means of Counteracting the Existing Monopoly in the Supplying of

• UPC: 453035982

NEVER GIVE IN : THE BEST CHURCHILL'S SPEECHES by W. S CHURCHILL 'FLAT SIGNED'

• UPC: 303182952906
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 59 USD

Never Give In !: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches HCDJ 2003 1st U.S. 1st

• UPC: 202689266874
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 23 USD

Please be my Best Man? (As long as you don't tell THAT story in your speech!) -

• UPC: 123122443302
• Category: Cards & Invitations
• Price: 4 GBP