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9781905204373

The Greatest American Speeches The Stories and transcripts of the words that changed our history

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  • ISBN13:

    9781905204373

  • ISBN10:

    190520437X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-01-28
  • Publisher: Quercus
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Summary

This book contains 50 momentous and thought-provoking speeches from a wide range of historical eras and perspectives. Each chapter contains a biography of each speaker, the history of why each speech was significant, and what happened as a result. Iconic black and white photography dramatically illustrates the key figures and moments in American history.

Table of Contents

Introduction 3(4)
``There is a twofold liberty, natural. . . and civil or federal.'' Acquittal speech before the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1645
7(4)
John Winthrop
``Give me liberty or give me death.'' Speech to the second Virginia Convention, 23 March 1775
11(4)
Patrick Henry
``I agree to this Constitution for all its faults.'' Speech at the Constitutional Convention, Pennsylvania, 17 September 1787
15(4)
Benjamin Franklin
``A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils.'' Farewell address, 17 September 1796
19(6)
George Washington
``We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.'' Inaugural address, Washington, 4 March 1801
25(6)
Thomas Jefferson
The Monroe Doctrine Address to Congress, 2 December 1823, Washington
31(4)
James Monroe
The Declaration of Sentiments Address to the First Women's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, 19 July 1848
35(4)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
``And ain't I a woman?'' Speech to the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio, December 1851
39(3)
Sojourner Truth
``What to the American slave is your Fourth of July?'' Address to the citizens of Rochester, New York, 4 July 1852
42(4)
Frederick Douglass
``I deny everything but what I have all along admitted---the design on my part to free the slaves.'' Address to the court, Harpers Ferry, Virginia, 2 November 1859
46(4)
John Brown
``Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation. . .'' The Gettysburg Address, 19 November 1863 ``With malice toward none; with charity for all. . .'' Second inaugural address, 4 March 1865, Washington
50(5)
Abraham Lincoln
The Battle of Little Bighorn Cheyenne River Reservation, 1881
55(4)
Crazy Horse
``Great in life, he was surpassingly great in death.'' Funeral oration for President Garfield, Washington DC, 27 February 1882
59(4)
James G. Blaine
``Cast down your bucket where you are.'' Speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 18 September 1895
63(5)
Booker T. Washington
``The man with the muck rake.'' Speech at the laying of the corner stone of the Cannon Office Building, Washington DC, 15 April 1906
68(5)
Theodore Roosevelt
``The world must be made safe for democracy.'' Speech to Congress, 2 April 1917
73(4)
Woodrow Wilson
``Now at last we can begin.'' Speech at the First Feminist Congress, New York, 1919
77(4)
Crystal Eastman
``I believe in the law of love.'' Closing speech in defense of Henry Sweet, 11 May 1926
81(3)
Clarence Darrow
``The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.'' Inaugural address, 4 March 1933 ``A date which will live in infamy.'' Speech to Congress, 8 December 1941
84(7)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
``Form and function seen as one: of such is democracy.'' From a lecture given at Princeton (1930) and in London (1939)
91(3)
Frank Lloyd Wright
``A bad break.'' Farewell to baseball, Lou Gehrig Day, 4 July 1939
94(3)
Lou Gehrig
``I am personally going to shoot that paper-hanging sonofabitch Hitler.'' Speech to the US Third Army on the eve of D-Day, 5 June 1944
97(4)
General George S. Patton Jr.
``The reason that we did this job is because it was an organic necessity.'' Los Alamos, New Mexico, 2 November 1945
101(4)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
The Truman Doctrine Address to a Joint Session of Congress, 12 March 1947
105(5)
Harry S. Truman
``The international Magna Carta of all men everywhere.'' Approving the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Paris, France, 9 December 1948
110(4)
Eleanor Roosevelt
``Enemies from within.'' Speech to the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, 9 February 1950
114(4)
Joseph R. McCarthy
``Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.'' Farewell address to Congress, Washington, 19 April 1951
118(4)
General Douglas MacArthur
``Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.'' Inaugural address, Washington, 20 January 1961 ``Ich bin ein Berliner.'' West Berlin, Germany, 26 June 1963 ``Watchmen on the walls of world freedom.'' Undelivered speech, Dallas, Texas, 22 November 1963
122(10)
John F. Kennedy
``I have a dream.'' Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, 28 August 1963 ``I've seen the promised land.'' Memphis, Tennessee, 3 April 1968
132(8)
Martin Luther King Jr.
``And we shall overcome.'' Address to a Joint Session of Congress, 15 March 1965
140(5)
Lyndon B. Johnson
``You can't hate the roots of a tree, and not hate the tree.'' Detroit, 14 February 1965
145(4)
Malcolm X
``I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself.'' On refusing to fight in Vietnam, July 1967
149(3)
Muhammad Ali
``I have some very sad news for all of you.'' Speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, 4 April 1968
152(4)
Robert F. Kennedy
``The Eagle has landed.'' The race for the moon, 1963--72
156(6)
``There can be no whitewash at the White House.'' Address to the nation, 30 April 1973
162(6)
Richard M. Nixon
``The difficult decisions always come to this desk.'' Address to the nation, 8 September 1974
168(5)
Gerald Ford
``These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc.'' D-Day commemoration speech, Normandy, France, 6 June 1984 ``The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.'' Address to the nation, 28 January 1986 ``Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!'' Speech at the Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, 12 June 1987
173(10)
Ronald Reagan
``I wish him well.'' Commencement Address at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, I June 1990
183(4)
Barbara Bush
``You have lost too much, but you have not lost everything.'' Oklahoma City, 23 April 1995
187(4)
Bill Clinton
``The perils of indifference.'' Seventh White House Millennium Evening, Washington, 12 April 1999
191(6)
Elie Wiesel
``We stand together to win the war against terrorism.'' Address to the nation, 11 September 2001
197(4)
George W. Bush
``This was not just an attack on the city of New York.'' Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, New York, 1 October 2001
201(5)
Rudolph Giuliani
Index 206(2)
Acknowledgments 208

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