The Right Words Great Republican Speeches that Shaped History

by Hall, Wynton C.

• ISBN13: 9780471758167
• ISBN10: 0471758167
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-02-09
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Award-winning presidential scholar and speechwriter Wynton Hall brings together the Republican Party's greatest oratorical gems, from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Teddy Roosevelt's the Man with the Muckrake to Ronald Reagan's "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" and George W. Bush's "our mission and our moment" speech after 9/11. Hall examines the historical context of each of these great addresses and reveals the persuasive secrets that make each speech truly outstanding.

Author Biography

Wynton C. Hall is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. An award-winning presidential scholar, speechwriter, and author, Hall holds an M.A. from Texas A&M University in speech communication with an emphasis in presidential rhetoric and public affairs. In 2003, he was appointed to the eight-person National Task Force on the Presidency and Public Opinion, which is composed of some of the top presidential scholars in the United States. Hall is the coauthor of The Greatest Communicator: What Ronald Reagan Taught Me about Politics, Leadership, and Life (Wiley). His work has been published in The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Times, Presidential Studies Quarterly, National Review Online, and elsewhere.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Elephant Poachers

Leftist Academe and the Erasure of Republican Remembrance

Abraham Lincoln

The First and Greatest

The Gettysburg Address

November 19, 1863, Battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Second Inaugural

March 4, 1865, U.S. Capitol

Washington, D.C

Theodore Roosevelt

The Rough-Riding Rhetorician

The Strenuous Life

April 10, 1899

The Hamilton Club, Chicago, Illinois

The Man with the Muck-Rake

April 15, 1906

Washington, D.C

William F. Buckley Jr

American Conservatism Finds Its Spokesman in the Speech That Wasn't

Yale Alumni Day Speech

February 1950 (Undelivered), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Strategic Speechifying

Atoms for Peace

December 8, 1953

United Nations General Assembly, New York, New York"

Little Rock"

September 24, 1957, Oval Office

The White House Washington, D.C

Everett Dirksen

The Speech That Made the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Possible

"The Time Has Come"

June 10, 1964, U.S. Senate

Washington, D.C

Barry Goldwater

"You Know He's Right"

"Extremism in the Defense of Liberty Is No Vice"

July 16, 1964

Republican National Convention, the Cow Palace, San Francisco, California

Richard M. Nixon

The Beginning of the End

"Checkers"

September 23, 1952, U.S. Capitol

Washington, D.C

Gerald R. Ford

"Our Long National Nightmare Is Over"

Oath of the U.S. Presidency

August 9, 1974, East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C

Ronald Reagan

A Shining Speaker on a Hill

"The Evil Empire"

March 8, 1983

Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals, Orlando, Florida

Challenger

January 28, 1986 Oval Office

The White House, Washington, D.C

"Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall"

June 12, 1987

Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany

Newt Gingrich

The Revolutionary Speaker

"The Contract with America"

January 4, 1995

Inaugural Speech as Speaker of the House, U.S. House of Representatives

Washington, D.C

George W. Bush

His Mission and His Moment

"Justice Will Be Done"

September 20, 2001

Joint Session of Congress, U.S. Capitol

Washington, D.C

John McCain

The Maverick and His Message

"A Disingenuous Filmmaker"

August 30, 2004

Republican National Convention, Madison Square Garden, New York, New York

Notes

Index

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