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9780241953266

The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches

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  • ISBN13:

    9780241953266

  • ISBN10:

    024195326X

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2013-05-28
  • Publisher: Penguin Books
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Summary

'Impeccable. MacArthur prefaces each address with a short but scholarly historical explanation that sets the scene perfectly. An attractive volume with a splendidly pithy introducton' Andrew Roberts, Sunday TimesFrom Moses to Nelson Mandella, speeches have helped both change the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped. A great orator, however, has to have the right words and the right message to inspire his or her followers.The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches gathers together the world's greatest speeches, bringing together the words of over one hundred men and women. These brilliant and passionate declarations by Disraeli, Lincoln, Gladstone, Churchill, Washington, Socrates, Pankhurst, Lenin, Gandhi and many others provide a vivid glimpse of history in the making while retaining their power to move and inspire today.'MacArthur wisely [concentrates] on certain political conflicts - gathering together the oratory of the American Civil War or the campaign for female suffrage. His book works well not just as an anthology but as a history of those episodes' Independent on Sunday

Author Biography

Brian MacArthur is the editor of the acclaimed Penguin Book of 20th-Century Speeches and is the author of several books, including For King and Country: Voices from the First World War. A former editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement and executive editor of the Times (London), he lives in London and Norfolk, England.

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