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Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A readable analysis of 25 momentous presidential speeches that provides context and understanding of events and history, illustrated with facsimiles of supporting documents, notes, and drafts that together formed the final speech.
The book examines the pivotal, often familiar, and potent speeches and addresses of dozens of U.S. presidents to reveal the varied and often conflicting points of view that shaped the final famous words. We see in many...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"A fine, invaluable book. . . . Certain to become essential to our understanding of the 16th president. . . . Kaplan meticulously analyzes how Lincoln's steadily maturing prose style enabled him to come to grips with slavery and, as his own views evolved, to express his deepening opposition to it." - Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
For Abraham Lincoln, whether he was composing love letters, speeches, or legal arguments, words mattered....
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Selected by his grandson, a compilation of some of the finest speeches by the indomitable former British Prime Minister encompasses his entire career and includes both well-known speeches as well as those never before published in popular form
Author
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
20170328
Language
English
Description
The final speeches of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, and First Lady Michelle Obama. Both speeches were instant and moving landmarks, as well as stirring testaments to the time this inspiring and beloved couple spent in the White House.
Author
Series
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Abraham Lincoln was one of America's greatest public orators. The cadence, argument and power he brought to his speeches, like those of the Gettysburg address almost every American learns in school, still stir the hearts of not only Americans, but countless millions around the world. This series of 24 lectures examines Lincoln's rhetoric - the public messages in which he evolved his views on slavery and the preservation of the Union and by which he...