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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822322603321

Autore

Safire William <1929-2009, >

Titolo

Lend me your ears : great speeches in history / / selected and introduced by William Safire

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified] : , : RosettaBooks, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-7953-3662-4

0-7953-3659-4

0-7953-3661-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (825 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SafireWilliam <1929-2009.>

Disciplina

808.85

Soggetti

Speeches, addresses, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""An Introductory Address""; ""I. Memorials and Patriotic Speeches""; ""Pericles Extols the Glory That Is Greece at the Funeral of Its Fallen Sons""; ""Roman Empress Theodora Refuses to Flee""; ""Founding Father Gouverneur Morris Defines National Greatness""; ""Daniel Webster Speaks at the Dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument""; ""Lecturer Frances Wright Speaks on Independence Day""; ""Lincoln Rededicates the Union at Gettysburg""; ""Mark Twain Celebrates the Fourth of July""

""President Calvin Coolidge Affirms His Faith in Massachusetts""""Interior Secretary Harold Ickes Lashes Isolationists and Defeatists""; ""Judge Learned Hand Evokes the Spirit of Liberty""; ""Underground Fighter Menachem Begin Pledges His Group�s Allegiance to the Newborn State of Israel""; ""Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson Defines the Nature of Patriotism""; ""General Douglas MacArthur Reminds West Point Cadets of Duty, Honor, Country""; ""II. War and Revolution Speeches""; ""Catiline the Conspirator Turns and Fights""; ""Pope Urban II Launches the First Crusade""

""Queen Elizabeth Inveighs against the Spanish Armada""""Patrick Henry Ignites the American Revolution""; ""An Indian Chief Pledges Help""; ""General Washington Talks His Officers Out of Insurrection""; ""Richard Price, an English Cleric, Hails the Revolutions""; ""Revolutionist



Georges-Jacques Danton Demands Death for the Squeamish""; ""Napoleon Exhorts His Troops against France�s Enemies""; ""Garibaldi Prepares Italy�s Guerrillas for Battle""; ""Jefferson Davis Takes His Leave of the U.S. Senate""; ""Chief Joseph Surrenders""

""President Woodrow Wilson Presents an Ideal to the War Congress""""Lenin Defends Proletarian Dictatorship""; ""Mussolini Justifies His Invasion of Ethiopia""; ""Hitler Declares Germany�s Intentions""; ""Winston Churchill Braces Britons to Their Task""; ""Churchill Rallies the British People after the “Miracle of Deliverance� at Dunkirk""; ""Stalin Commands the Soviet Peoples to Scorch the Earth Being Taken by Hitler�s Troops""; ""President Franklin D. Roosevelt Asks Congress to Declare War on Japan""; ""General Montgomery Takes Command and Draws the Line at El Alamein""

""Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Acts to Defend the Falkland Islands""""Israel�s Yitzhak Rabin Shakes Hands with His Lifelong Enemy""; ""III. Tributes and Eulogies""; ""Mark Antony Urges Mourners to Vengeance over the Body of Julius Caesar""; ""Edmund Burke Laments the Death of Marie Antoinette""; ""Henry Lee Remembers George Washington""; ""Daniel Webster Puts a Speech in the Mouth of John Adams""; ""Senator George Graham Vest Offers a Tribute to the Dog""; ""Ralph Waldo Emerson Commemorates the Centennial of Robert Burns""

""Frederick Douglass Cuts through the Lincoln Myth to Consider the Man""



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910146525103321

Titolo

Archives of disease in childhood Fetal and neonatal edition

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London], : BMJ Pub. Group

ISSN

1468-2052

Disciplina

618.9201

Soggetti

Children - Diseases

Infants - Diseases

Newborn infants - Diseases

Fetus - Diseases

Infant, Newborn, Diseases

Fetal Diseases

Pediatrics

Enfants - Maladies

Nourrissons - Maladies

Nouveau-nés - Maladies

Fœtus - Maladies

Pédiatrie

Periodical

periodicals.

Periodicals.

Périodiques.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed