Author: Edward L. Widmer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
A historian and former presidential speechwriter presents an unprecedented two-volume collection of the greatest speeches in American history.
American Speeches Vol. 1 (LOA #166)
Author: Edward L. Widmer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
A historian and former presidential speechwriter presents an unprecedented two-volume collection of the greatest speeches in American history.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
A historian and former presidential speechwriter presents an unprecedented two-volume collection of the greatest speeches in American history.
The Roar of the Lion
Author: Richard Toye
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199642524
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The essential book on Winston Churchill's classic World War II speeches - one that will change the way we think about Churchill's oratory forever.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199642524
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The essential book on Winston Churchill's classic World War II speeches - one that will change the way we think about Churchill's oratory forever.
Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered
Author: John Channing Briggs
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801881060
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
In this close examination, John Channing Briggs reveals how the process of studying, writing, and delivering speeches helped Lincoln develop the ideas with which he would so profoundly change history.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801881060
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
In this close examination, John Channing Briggs reveals how the process of studying, writing, and delivering speeches helped Lincoln develop the ideas with which he would so profoundly change history.
The Gettysburg Address
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504080246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
The complete text of one of the most important speeches in American history, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to remember not only the grim bloodshed that had just occurred there, but also to remember the American ideals that were being put to the ultimate test by the Civil War. A rousing appeal to the nation’s better angels, The Gettysburg Address remains an inspiring vision of the United States as a country “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504080246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
The complete text of one of the most important speeches in American history, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to remember not only the grim bloodshed that had just occurred there, but also to remember the American ideals that were being put to the ultimate test by the Civil War. A rousing appeal to the nation’s better angels, The Gettysburg Address remains an inspiring vision of the United States as a country “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Landmark Speeches on the Vietnam War
Author: Gregory Allen Olson
Publisher: TAMU Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The fourteen key speeches collected in this volume trace both the evolution of U.S. policy and its contestation.
Publisher: TAMU Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The fourteen key speeches collected in this volume trace both the evolution of U.S. policy and its contestation.
Perilous Times
Author: Geoffrey R. Stone
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393058802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Geoffrey Stone's Perilous Times incisively investigates how the First Amendment and other civil liberties have been compromised in America during wartime. Stone delineates the consistent suppression of free speech in six historical periods from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the Vietnam War, and ends with a coda that examines the state of civil liberties in the Bush era. Full of fresh legal and historical insight, Perilous Times magisterially presents a dramatic cast of characters who influenced the course of history over a two-hundred-year period: from the presidents—Adams, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, and Nixon—to the Supreme Court justices—Taney, Holmes, Brandeis, Black, and Warren—to the resisters—Clement Vallandingham, Emma Goldman, Fred Korematsu, and David Dellinger. Filled with dozens of rare photographs, posters, and historical illustrations, Perilous Times is resonant in its call for a new approach in our response to grave crises.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393058802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Geoffrey Stone's Perilous Times incisively investigates how the First Amendment and other civil liberties have been compromised in America during wartime. Stone delineates the consistent suppression of free speech in six historical periods from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the Vietnam War, and ends with a coda that examines the state of civil liberties in the Bush era. Full of fresh legal and historical insight, Perilous Times magisterially presents a dramatic cast of characters who influenced the course of history over a two-hundred-year period: from the presidents—Adams, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, and Nixon—to the Supreme Court justices—Taney, Holmes, Brandeis, Black, and Warren—to the resisters—Clement Vallandingham, Emma Goldman, Fred Korematsu, and David Dellinger. Filled with dozens of rare photographs, posters, and historical illustrations, Perilous Times is resonant in its call for a new approach in our response to grave crises.
We Shall Fight on the Beaches
Author: Jacob F. Field
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1782430911
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The examples in this book show how words can be used to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse even the most seemingly hard-bitten of listeners.
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1782430911
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The examples in this book show how words can be used to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse even the most seemingly hard-bitten of listeners.
The Peace War
Author: Vernor Vinge
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1429915110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
First in a quintessential hard-science fiction adventure, Hugo Award-winning author Vernor Vinge's The Peace War follows a scientist determined to put an end to the militarization of his greatest invention--and of the government behind it. The Peace Authority conquered the world with a weapon that never should have been a weapon--the "bobble," a spherical force-field impenetrable by any force known to mankind. Encasing governmental installations and military bases in bobbles, the Authority becomes virtually omnipotent. But they've never caught Paul Hoehler, the maverick who invented the technology, and who has been working quietly for decades to develop a way to defeat the Authority. With the help of an underground network of determined, independent scientists and a teenager who may be the apprentice genius he's needed for so long, he will shake the world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1429915110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
First in a quintessential hard-science fiction adventure, Hugo Award-winning author Vernor Vinge's The Peace War follows a scientist determined to put an end to the militarization of his greatest invention--and of the government behind it. The Peace Authority conquered the world with a weapon that never should have been a weapon--the "bobble," a spherical force-field impenetrable by any force known to mankind. Encasing governmental installations and military bases in bobbles, the Authority becomes virtually omnipotent. But they've never caught Paul Hoehler, the maverick who invented the technology, and who has been working quietly for decades to develop a way to defeat the Authority. With the help of an underground network of determined, independent scientists and a teenager who may be the apprentice genius he's needed for so long, he will shake the world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Landmark Speeches on US Pacifism
Author: Susan Schultz Huxman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
United States peace rhetoric is courageous, diverse, challenging, persuasive, and woefully under-exposed. This collection of landmark speeches in peace gives overdue scholarly notice to key figures on the American peace scene (politicians, athletes, journalists, preachers, movement leaders, scientists, doctors, academics, etc.) who have given vibrant, authentic voice and rhetorical significance to the important peace tradition in the United States from World War I until today.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
United States peace rhetoric is courageous, diverse, challenging, persuasive, and woefully under-exposed. This collection of landmark speeches in peace gives overdue scholarly notice to key figures on the American peace scene (politicians, athletes, journalists, preachers, movement leaders, scientists, doctors, academics, etc.) who have given vibrant, authentic voice and rhetorical significance to the important peace tradition in the United States from World War I until today.
The New Nationalism
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019297476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019297476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.