This collection features historical speeches given by those aspiring to win over voters and gain positions of power. This collection includes speeches by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bill Clinton, Barry Goldwater, Barbara Jordan, Bob Dole,...
Speeches, addresses, etc., American
-
Author:Summary: -
Author:Summary:Following the Supreme Court ruling in 1954 striking down the "separate but equal" doctrine, a decade and a half of civil turbulence existed. Civil rights activists used nonviolent protest and civil disobedience to bring about change....
-
Author:Summary:A collection of significant speeches by those who held the reins of power, and those who didn't, at significant times in American history. Hear the original words, sometimes abridged and sometimes in their entirety, that have...
-
Author:Kennedy, Robert F.Summary:In honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Francis Kennedy's death, an inspiring collection of his most famous speeches accompanied by commentary from notable historians and public figures. Twenty-five years after Bobby Kennedy was...
-
Author:King, Martin LutherSummary:This definitive box set includes all the landmark speeches of the great orator and American leader Martin Luther King Jr., from his inspirational "I Have a Dream" to his fiery "Give Us the Ballot."
- Author:Monette, Pierre, Emerson, Ralpf WaldoSummary:
Paru il y a 175 ans, en 1837, « Le scholar américain » de Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) est le texte fondateur de l’identité culturelle états-unienne. Les États-Unis en avaient alors assez de se « nourrir des restes flétris de...
-
Author:Olive, DavidSummary:Barack Obama, junior senator from Illinois, first captured America’s attention with his keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in 2004. Now, as presumptive Democratic candidate for President, Obama’s superb and...
-
Author:King, Martin LutherSummary:His speeches stirred a generation to change - and outlined a practical way to economic freedom and true democracy. His words would help bring about the end of a brutally unequal system - and would show a timeless method for achieving...
