The World's Great SpeechesNearly 300 speeches offer provocative themes, historic parallels, and memorable quotations: Socrates, Julius Caesar, St. Francis, Martin Luther, Napoleon, Victor Hugo, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Fulton J. Sheen, Barbara Jordan, Malcolm X, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, Earl of Spencer, and many others. Includes 7 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Address to Parliament on May 13th, 1940," "Farewell Address," "Gettysburg Address," "I Have a Dream," "Second Inaugural Address," "Speech to the Second Virginia Convention," and "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July." |
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... civilization flowered in Athens , oratory became a fine art of government and culture . And so it has continued to our own stormy times . In making the selection for this volume care has been exercised to in- clude not merely the famous ...
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III | 62 |
IV | 146 |
V | 226 |
VI | 378 |
VII | 386 |
VIII | 403 |
XIV | 583 |
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XVI | 612 |
XVII | 647 |
XIX | 649 |
XX | 733 |
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