The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches

Fülszöveg

In this companion volume to his highly
acclaimed Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches,
Brian MacArthur brings together the words of over
a hundred men and women - from Moses to Mandela -
who helped to change the world through the sheer
power of their oratory.
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In 1969 Betty Friedan proclaimed in an impassioned speech on
women's rights, 'Today, we moved history forward.' Gladstone
and Disraeli, and Pitt and Fox before them, forged the politics
of their age through ferocious verbal combat in the House of
Commons. Abraham Lincoln transformed for ever the way
Americans interpret the Civil War and their national destiny
A legacy of turmoil in Ireland; the revolutionary rhetoric
of eighteenth-century France; and this century's catalogue
of conflict are all represented in this definitive and
incisive collection.
'MacArthur's earlier selections, up to the late nineteenth century, are impeccable
He prefaces each address with a short but scholarly historical... Tovább

Fülszöveg

In this companion volume to his highly
acclaimed Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Speeches,
Brian MacArthur brings together the words of over
a hundred men and women - from Moses to Mandela -
who helped to change the world through the sheer
power of their oratory.
y
In 1969 Betty Friedan proclaimed in an impassioned speech on
women's rights, 'Today, we moved history forward.' Gladstone
and Disraeli, and Pitt and Fox before them, forged the politics
of their age through ferocious verbal combat in the House of
Commons. Abraham Lincoln transformed for ever the way
Americans interpret the Civil War and their national destiny
A legacy of turmoil in Ireland; the revolutionary rhetoric
of eighteenth-century France; and this century's catalogue
of conflict are all represented in this definitive and
incisive collection.
'MacArthur's earlier selections, up to the late nineteenth century, are impeccable
He prefaces each address with a short but scholarly historical explanation that
sets the scene perfectly An attractive volume with a splendidly pithy
introduction' — Andrew Roberts in the Sunday Times
'By reading consecutively the extracts from American actors in the history of the
USA, the reader gets a most exhilarating glimpse beneath the surface of the
successive dramas which made up American history' — J. Enoch Powell in the
Daily Telegraph
'MacArthur wisely [concentrates] on certain political conflicts - gathering together
the oratory of the American Civil War or the campaign for female suffrage his
book works well not just as an anthology but as a history of those episodes'
— Ben Rogers in the Independent on Sunday Vissza