| Edition |
Revised and updated edition. |
| Description |
144 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
Discover 70 great speeches from leaders such as Winston Churchill, Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Shirley Chisholm, Ronald Reagan, Gloria Steinem, Bill Gates, and many more. Read excerpts from powerful speeches such as MLK's "I Have a Dream," Churchill's "We Shall Fight on the Beaches," LBJ's "We Shall Overcome," Mary Fisher's "A Whisper of AIDS," and Elie Wiesel's "The Perils of Indifference." These memorable speeches are organized chronologically, beginning with Marie Curie and ending with Elon Musk. Each spread includes an introduction to the speaker and speech as well as key excerpts from the speech. |
| Contents |
Marie Curie -- Woodrow Wilson -- Margaret Sanger -- Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Winston Churchill -- Mohandas Gandhi -- J. Robert Oppenheimer -- Albert Einstein -- Jawaharlal Nehru -- George Marshall -- William Faulkner -- Dwight D. Eisenhower -- John F. Kennedy -- Newton Minow -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Malcolm X -- Barry Goldwater -- Mario Savio -- Lyndon B. Johnson -- Timothy Leary -- Stokely Carmichael -- Robert F. Kennedy -- Richard J. Daley -- Neil Armstrong -- Spiro Agnew -- Shirley Chisholm -- John Kerry -- Gerald R. Ford -- Barbara Jordan -- Anwar Sadat -- Jimmy E. Carter -- Margaret Thatcher -- Geraldine Ferraro -- Cesar Chavez -- Ronald W. Reagan -- Oliver North -- Ann Richards -- Vaclav Havel -- Nelson Mandela -- Fidel Castro -- Anita Hill -- Pat Buchanan -- Mary Fisher -- Toni Morrison -- Mother Teresa -- Gloria Steinem -- Newt Gingrich William J. Clinton -- Hillary Clinton -- Thabo Mbeki -- Christopher Reeve -- Tony Blair -- Desmond Tutu -- Charlton Heston -- Eliezer Wiesel -- Tim Berners-Lee -- George W. Bush -- Kofi Annan -- Jane Goodall -- Colin Powell -- Barack Obama -- Gerry Adams -- Karl Rove -- Hugo Chavez -- Bill Gates -- Chris Dodd -- Al Gore -- Michelle Obama -- Ralph Nader -- Mike Mullen -- Elon Musk. |
| Subject |
Speeches, addresses, etc.
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Speeches, addresses, etc. (OCoLC)fst01129318
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| Added Author |
Andrews, Elisabeth, 1979- contributor.
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Strasen, Marty, contributor.
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Taylor, Beth 1983- contributor.
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| ISBN |
9781640306547 |
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1640306544 |
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