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

• Autore: Safire William <1929-2009, >
• Pubblicazione: [Place of publication not identified] : , : RosettaBooks, , [2014]; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (825 p.)
• Disciplina: 808.85
• Soggetto topico: Speeches, addresses, etc
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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 Groupâ€?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 Franceâ€?s Enemies""; ""Garibaldi Prepares Italyâ€?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 Germanyâ€?s Intentions""; ""Winston Churchill Braces Britons to Their Task""; ""Churchill Rallies the British People after the “Miracle of Deliveranceâ€? at Dunkirk""; ""Stalin Commands the Soviet Peoples to Scorch the Earth Being Taken by Hitlerâ€?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""""Israelâ€?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""
• Titolo autorizzato: Lend me your ears
• ISBN: 0-7953-3659-4; 0-7953-3661-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464629603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II