Best Political Speeches In History - May 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

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

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

The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great

Now a #1 New York Times Bestseller.Human beings have never had it better than we have it now in the West. So why are we on the verge of throwing it all away?In 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of California–Berkeley. Hundreds of police officers were required to protect his speech. What was so frightening about Shapiro? He came to argue that Western civilization is in the midst of a crisis of purpose and ideas; that we have let grievances replace our sense of community and political expediency limit our individual rights; that we are teaching our kid... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07CLMXWT9
• ASIN: B07CLMXWT9
• Manufacturer: Broadside e-books

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

The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

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

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Winner of the Lincoln Prize Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president.On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0743270754
• ASIN: 0743270754
• ISBN: 0743270754
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

NATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARWho are the immensely wealthy right-wing ideologues shaping the fate of America today? From the bestselling author of The Dark Side, an electrifying work of investigative journalism that uncovers the agenda of this powerful group.In her new preface, Jane Mayer discusses the results of the most recent election and Donald Trump's victory, and how, despite much discussion to the contrary, this was a huge victory for the billionaires who have been pouring money in the American political system.Why is America living in an age ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307947904
• ASIN: 0307947904
• ISBN: 0307947904
• Brand: Anchor
• Manufacturer: Anchor

The Point of It All: A Lifetime of Great Loves and Endeavors

Created and compiled by Charles Krauthammer before his death, The Point of It All is a powerful collection of the influential columnist's most important works. Spanning the personal, the political and the philosophical, it includes never-before-published speeches and a major new essay about the effect of today's populist movements on the future of global democracy. Edited and with an introduction by the columnist's son, Daniel Krauthammer, it is the most intimate and profound book yet by the legendary writer and thinker. In his decades of work as America's preeminent political commentator, Ch... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1984825488
• ASIN: 1984825488
• ISBN: 1984825488
• Manufacturer: Crown Forum

Atlas Shrugged

Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battles not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves?You will know the answer to the... [Read More]

• ASIN: B003V8B5XO
• ASIN: B003V8B5XO
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Signet

Fatwa: Hunted in America

If this book is proof of anything, it's that one person can make a difference. And what a remarkable difference Pamela Geller has made. At last, in Fatwa: Hunted In America, she tells her story.

• ASIN: 1947979000
• ASIN: 1947979000
• ISBN: 1947979000
• Manufacturer: Dangerous Books

Politics - According to the Bible: A Comprehensive Resource for Understanding Modern Political Issues in Light of Scripture

A variety of perspectives exist within the Christian community when it comes to political issues and political involvement. This comprehensive and readable book presents a political philosophy from the perspective that the Gospel pertains to all of life so Christians should be involved in political issues. In brief, this is an analysis of conservative and liberal plans to do good for the nation, evaluated in light of the Bible and common sense.In this ground-breaking book, recognized evangelical Bible professor Wayne Grudem rejects five mistaken views about Christian influence on politics: (1)... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0310330297
• UPC: 025986330293
• ASIN: 0310330297
• ISBN: 0310330297
• Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
• Manufacturer: Zondervan Academic

A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

"We've got some difficult days ahead," civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., told a crowd gathered at Memphis's Clayborn Temple on April 3, 1968. "But it really doesn't matter to me now because I've been to the mountaintop. . . . And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land."These prophetic words, uttered the day before his assassination, challenged those he left behind to see that his "promised land" of racial equality became a reality; a reality to which King devoted the last twelve ye... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0060646918
• ASIN: 0060646918
• ISBN: 0060646918
• Brand: HarperOne
• Manufacturer: HarperOne

The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams

An intellectual dialogue of the highest plane achieved in America, the correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spanned half a century and embraced government, philosophy, religion, quotidiana, and family griefs and joys. First meeting as delegates to the Continental Congress in 1775, they initiated correspondence in 1777, negotiated jointly as ministers in Europe in the 1780s, and served the early Republic--each, ultimately, in its highest office. At Jefferson's defeat of Adams for the presidency in 1800, they became estranged, and the correspondence lapses from 1801 to 1812, th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0807842303
• ASIN: 0807842303
• ISBN: 0807842303
• Manufacturer: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press

Common Sense, a Summary View of the Rights of British America, Thoughts on Government and the Speeches of Washington : Important Early American Political Writing, Including the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution

The American Revolution stands as a major turning point in world history. Most prominently, it resulted in the creation of the United States of America, a nation that has played a dominate role in world

• UPC: 398841385
• Rating: 4.0

Political Speeches - eBook

'Two things alone I long for: first, that when I die I may leave the Roman people free...and second, that each person's fate may reflect the way he has behaved towards his country.' Cicero (106-43

• UPC: 806486659

Famous British Political Speeches - Audiobook

James Ramsay MacDonald,(October 12, 1866 November 9, 1937) was aBritishstatesmanwho was the first everLabourPrime Minister of the United Kingdom, leading aLabour Government in 1924, and from 1929 to 1931, and aNational Government from 1931 to

• UPC: 357094589

Voices of Radical Change : Greatest Speeches of Political and Social Transformation

Speeches of visionaries and great leaders who inspired change and influenced the course of history. Every speech marks a figure or moment in history that represents political or social transformation. A thoughtful compilation of orations

• UPC: 13905544

Life of Abraham Lincoln : Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and Speeches in and Out of Congress; Also, a General View of His Policy as President of the United States; With His Messages, Proclamations, Letters, Etc., and a History of His Event

Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and Speeches in and Out of Congress; Also, a General View of His

• UPC: 542007325

Political Speeches and Debates of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, 1854-1861 ..

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as

• UPC: 954647772

Speech of Mr. J.J. Hardin, of Illinois, Reviewing the Public Life & Political Principles of Mr. Van Buren : Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 21, 1844

Speech of Mr. J.J. Hardin, of Illinois, Reviewing the Public Life & Political Principles of Mr. Van Buren: Delivered in the House of

• UPC: 481367146

Puritanism in Politics. Speech of Hon. S. S. Cox, of Ohio, Before the Democratic Union Association, January 13, 1863

Puritanism in Politics. Speech of Hon. S. S. Cox, of Ohio, Before the Democratic Union Association, January 13,

• UPC: 272211297

Political Issues and Presidential Candidates. Speech of the Hon. John Hickman, Delivered in Concert

Political Issues and Presidential Candidates. Speech of the Hon. John Hickman, Delivered in

• UPC: 422390756

Life and Speeches of President Andrew Johnson. Embracing His Early History, Political Career, Speeches, Procalamations, Etc

Life and Speeches of President Andrew Johnson. Embracing His Early History, Political Career, Speeches, Procalamations,

• UPC: 238398503