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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... tion of the third revised and updated edition published by Dover Publications , Inc. , in 1973. The book was first published by Doubleday & Co. , Inc. , in 1942. Part VII , Important Speeches of 1974-1997 has been added in the 1999 ...
... tion of the third revised and updated edition published by Dover Publications , Inc. , in 1973. The book was first published by Doubleday & Co. , Inc. , in 1942. Part VII , Important Speeches of 1974-1997 has been added in the 1999 ...
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... tion , with a second note where there is more than one address by the same speaker . Thus the occasion on which each address was given is clearly indicated . We are very glad to be able at this time to include a survey of speeches by ...
... tion , with a second note where there is more than one address by the same speaker . Thus the occasion on which each address was given is clearly indicated . We are very glad to be able at this time to include a survey of speeches by ...
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Contents
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II | 2 |
III | 62 |
IV | 146 |
V | 226 |
VI | 378 |
VII | 386 |
VIII | 403 |
XIV | 583 |
XV | 585 |
XVI | 612 |
XVII | 647 |
XIX | 649 |
XX | 733 |
XXI | 735 |
XXII | 776 |
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