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Great American speeches
Publisher
Gramercy Books/Random House Value Pub
Publication Date
c1993
Language
English
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From the Book
Liberty or death / Patrick Henry
In favor of the Federal Constitution / James Madison
First Inaugural Address ; Farewell Address / George Washington
Second Inaugural Address / Thomas Jefferson
The American scholar / Ralph Waldo Emerson
Antislavery convention address / Angelina Grimké
Inaugural address / James K. Polk
The compromise of 1850 / Henry Clay
Slavery in the Western Territories / Daniel Webster
On women's rights / Soujourner Truth
Independence Day address / Frederick Douglass
Temperance and women's rights / Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Oration / Chief Seattle
A disappointed woman / Lucy Stone
Seventh Lincoln-Douglas debate / Abraham Lincoln
Speech before the Court / John Brown
First Inaugural Address / Abraham Lincoln.
Inaugural Address as President of the Confederate States of America / Jefferson Davis
Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln
The American press / Mark Twain
The two revelations / Henry Ward Beecher
The modern museum and the teaching of art / John LaFarge
Atlanta Exposition Address / Booker T. Washington
The cross of gold speech / William Jennings Bryan
The art and craft of the machine: democracy and new forms in architecture / Frank Lloyd Wright
Dealing with the big corporations ; Preservation of the forests / Theodore Roosevelt
Arctic exploration / Robert E. Peary
War message ; The fourteen points / Woodrow Wilson
Should a Labor Party be formed? / Samuel Gompers
Mercy for Leopold and Loeb / Clarence Darrow.
First Inaugural Address ; The Four Freedoms ; Pearl Harbor Address / Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Announcement of the dropping of the atomic bomb / Harry S. Truman
The Marshall Plan / George Marshall
The menace of mass destruction / Albert Einstein
In support of civil rights / Hubert Humphrey
On behalf of a declaration of conscience / Margaret Chase Smith
The recall of General Douglas MacArthur / Harry S. Truman
American policy in the Pacific / Douglas MacArthur
Presidential nomination acceptance speech / Adlai Stevenson
The Korean Armistice / Dwight D. Eisenhower
Labor Day message / George Meany
Atoms for peace / Dwight D. Eisenhower
Inaugural Address / John F. Kennedy
Television and the public interest / Newton N. Minnow
The Berlin Crisis / John F. Kennedy.
The flight of Friendship 7 and the space program / John Glenn, Jr.
The March on Washington address / Martin Luther King, Jr.
An indefensible war / Eugene McMarthy
Leaving the Presidency / Lyndon B. Johnson
The legal profession and service to society / Ralph Nader
A new kind of southern stragegy / Bella Abzug
Statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee / Henry Kissinger
The planetary crisis and the challenge to scientists / Margaret Mead
On the impeachment of the President / Barbara Jordan
Resignation speech / Richard M. Nixon
First Inaugural Address / Ronald Reagan
A case for the Democrats: a tale of two cities / Mario Cuomo
Democractic Convention Speech / Jesse Jackson.
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9780517091173
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