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 : The World's Great Speeches: Fourth Enlarged (1999) Edition

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.85
EAN: 9780486409030
Edition: 4
ISBN: 0486409031
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 944
Publication Date: September 21, 1999
Publisher: Dover Publications
Studio: Dover Publications




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Product Description:
Nearly 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.




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Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Finding the moral values in the world
Preparing an important speech requires an enormous amount of work. Such a speech must in a very short time convince people of what you are trying to communicate. That is why good speeches are so fascinating to read. You will find speeches of almost 250 people on 920 pages. A treasure chest! You can look for different things. For example. There is not a single speech that claims that people should just aim to become rich or can become happy that way. Many speeches refer to happiness linked to virtue ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - The choice of the speeches included is part of the value of this collection and much can be learned from who and what is chosen
230 speakers, 278 speeches, over 800 pages taken from throughout history. Each speech has a short biographical note that precedes each speaker and offers some insight into why the speech is presented.

The introduction to the book offers a number of reasons to read this suggesting that it is a treasure house for public speakers and so on. I found it interesting to see what was picked for the specific authors.

When you list all of these mostly well-known and influential individuals ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A core academic and community library reference work.
This enlarged, revised edition gathers almost three hundred great speeches from nearly every historical era and nation from ancient to modern times, and makes for an outstanding volume. This edition adds fourteen important speeches delivered between 1974-97 and makes for an exciting display of messages.







 






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