| Edition |
New and revised edition. |
| Description |
411 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
This selection of famous American speeches from 1645 to 1969 includes the most vital parts of each speech and a news report introduction setting each speech in its historical time and place. |
| Contents |
John Winthrop -- Edward Rawson -- Jonathan Edwards -- John Hancock -- Patrick Henry -- Samuel Adams -- Benjamin Franklin -- Alexander Hamilton -- James Madison -- George Washington -- Thomas Jefferson -- John Quincy Adams -- Gouverneur Morris -- Red Jacket -- James Monroe -- Daniel Webster -- Edward Everett -- Andrew Jackson -- Wendell Phillips -- John C. Calhoun -- Rufus Choate -- Henry Clay -- Charles Sumner -- Abraham Lincoln -- Stephen A. Douglas -- William H. Seward -- John Brown -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Jefferson Davis -- Abraham Lincoln -- Henry Ward Beecher -- Susan B. Anthony -- Chauncey M. Depew -- Samuel L. Clemens -- Charles W. Eliot -- Joseph Hodges Choate -- Carl Schurz -- James G. Blaine -- Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. -- Booker T. Washington -- William Jennings Bryan -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Robert G. Ingersoll -- Robert M. LaFollette -- George Graham Vest -- Jane Addams -- Emma Goldman -- Stephen S. Wise -- William A. (Billy) Sunday -- Woodrow Wilson - Eugene V. Debs -- William Edgar Borah -- Clarence S. Darrow -- Will Rogers -- Russell H. Conwell -- William Green -- Alfred E. Smith -- Robert C. Benchley -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt -- William Lyon Phelps -- Owen D. Young -- Herbert Hoover -- John L. Lewis -- William Allen White -- Charles Evans Hughes -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Wendell L. Willkie -- Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Irvin S. Cobb -- Charles A. Lindbergh -- Dorothy Thompson -- Harold L. Ickes -- Norman Thomas -- Fulton J. Sheen -- George S. Patton -- Bernard M. Baruch -- George C. Marshall -- Herbert Hoover -- William Faulkner -- Douglas MacArthur -- Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Adlai E. Stevenson -- Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Cornelia Otis Skinner -- Harry S. Truman -- J. Robert Oppenheimer -- John Foster Dulles -- Alfred M. Gruenther -- William F. (Billy) Graham -- John Mason Brown -- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. -- Carl Sandburg -- John F. Kennedy -- John Glenn, Jr. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Subject |
Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
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United States -- History.
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