In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American CenturyRobert G. Torricelli, Andrew Caroll Kodansha America, 10. 11. 1999. - 450 страница ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF EXTRAORDINARY SPEECHES, ONE TIMELESS COLLECTION. In Our Own Words is a record of the most impassioned, inspirational, and infuriating orations ever given by Americans in this century. Featured here are the words of poets and politicians, artists and astronauts, scoundrels and sports heroes, Native Americans and Nobel laureates, soldiers and civil rights activists, humorists and hellraisers. The most comprehensive collection of American oratory ever assembled, In Our Own Words includes over 150 speeches, sermons, eulogies, radio broadcasts, courtroom pleas, fireside chats, public tributes, and commencement addresses. Beginning on the eve of the twentieth century, this collection spans the Progressive Era, the Depression, two World Wars, the civil rights movement, McCarthyism, Vietnam, feminism, the Reagan years, and the technological revolution, bringing us right up to the threshold of the new millennium, The words of these men and women, known and unknown, challenged the conscience of this country, summoned the nation to wan brought down tyrants, paid homage to fallen heroes, gave a voice to the poor and oppressed, and energized the soul and spirit of America in its most desperate times. To hear the voices of these extraordinary Americans once again or for the first time is to sit in the front row of the history of this century, decade by decade. We find both well-known and little-known speeches by the Roosevelts and the Kennedys, Mark Twain, General George S. Patton, Ronald Reagan, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Helen Keller, Billy Graham, Malcolm X, Clarence Darrow, Rachel Carson, Will Rogers, Betty Friedan, Orson Welles, Lou Gehrig, Jane Fonda, Carl Sagan, Jackie Robinson, Charlton Heston, Pearl Buck, Vince Lombardi, Elie Wiesel, and Duke Ellington. Over a hundred more visionaries and villains, leaders and preachers, radicals and revolutionaries tell the story of their age from their bully pulpits and convention halls, their soapboxes and podiums. These are the voices of our nation. No other century could have produced such dramatic oratory. No other collection could have captured it more powerfully. |
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... Speeches of the American Century EDITED BY Senator Robert Torricelli and Andrew Carroll FOREWORD BY DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN K KODANSHA INTERNATIONAL New York Tokyo • London Kodansha America , Inc. 575 Lexington Avenue , New York.
... Speeches of the American Century EDITED BY Senator Robert Torricelli and Andrew Carroll FOREWORD BY DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN K KODANSHA INTERNATIONAL New York Tokyo • London Kodansha America , Inc. 575 Lexington Avenue , New York.
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... Senator Albert J. Beveridge Defends America's Right to Subjugate " Savage " Peoples and Foreign Governments / 4 & Senator George F. Hoar Denounces American " Imperialism " / 6 Jane Addams Offers an Impassioned Tribute to George ...
... Senator Albert J. Beveridge Defends America's Right to Subjugate " Savage " Peoples and Foreign Governments / 4 & Senator George F. Hoar Denounces American " Imperialism " / 6 Jane Addams Offers an Impassioned Tribute to George ...
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... to Accept President Wilson's Proposal for a " League of Nations " / 51 & Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Rejects the League and Its " Mongrel Banner " / 55 New York Governor Alfred E. Smith Assails the " Contemptible VIII CONTENTS.
... to Accept President Wilson's Proposal for a " League of Nations " / 51 & Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Rejects the League and Its " Mongrel Banner " / 55 New York Governor Alfred E. Smith Assails the " Contemptible VIII CONTENTS.
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... Senator Huey P. Long Advances His " Share Our Wealth ” Plan to Make " Every Man a King " / 107 Radio Broadcaster Herb Morrison Reports Live as the Hindenburg Explodes and Crashes to the Ground / 110 Union Leader John L. Lewis Excoriates ...
... Senator Huey P. Long Advances His " Share Our Wealth ” Plan to Make " Every Man a King " / 107 Radio Broadcaster Herb Morrison Reports Live as the Hindenburg Explodes and Crashes to the Ground / 110 Union Leader John L. Lewis Excoriates ...
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Don P Halsey Extols the Virtues of Great Oratory | 3 |
Tammany Hall Politician George Washington Plunkitt Justifies | 11 |
W E B Du Bois Issues a Call to Arms to His Fellow African Americans | 17 |
Chief Plenty Coup Confers with His Tribal Council on Achieving Peace | 25 |
Anarchist Emma Goldman Derides Patriotism as a Menace | 31 |
President Woodrow Wilson Requests a Declaration of | 37 |
President Woodrow Wilson Enumerates the Fourteen Points | 43 |
The Reverend Dr Anna Howard Shaw Beseeches Americans to Accept | 51 |
Segregation | 228 |
Dr Martin Luther King Jr Electrifies a Nation with His Call for | 234 |
President John F Kennedy Pays Tribute to the Poet Robert Frost | 242 |
Senator Barry Goldwater Exclaims at the 1964 Republican Convention | 249 |
President Lyndon Johnson Envisions Transforming America into | 255 |
President Lyndon Johnson Outlines the First Steps to Limiting | 266 |
Robert F Kennedy Calms a Mostly Black Crowd of 1000 | 272 |
Congresswoman Shirley Anita St Hill Chisholm Demands That | 279 |
19201929 | 59 |
Attorney Edward Prindeville Demands Imprisonment for Eight | 65 |
Black Leader Marcus Garvey Finds Common Ground | 72 |
William Jennings Bryan Scoffs at Darwins Theory of Evolution | 79 |
Republican Presidential Candidate Herbert Hoover Predicts | 86 |
Oscar Ameringer Describes Intolerable Suffering Throughout | 93 |
Newly Elected President Franklin D Roosevelt Gives Inspiration | 99 |
Mary McLeod Bethune Commemorates the Sacrifices and Achievements | 105 |
Union Leader John L Lewis Excoriates Big Business for Its Brutality | 112 |
Baseball Great Lou Gehrig Suffering from a Fatal Disease Thanks | 115 |
Legendary Composer Duke Ellington Exalts the Artistic Intellectual | 124 |
Journalist Dorothy Thompson Imagines the Horror of a World | 130 |
General Dwight D Eisenhower Drafts a Message of Apology | 138 |
President Harry S Truman Addresses a Nation GriefStricken by | 144 |
General Douglas MacArthur Offers Words of Peace After Japan Signs | 147 |
Robert H Jackson Demands a Verdict of Guilty for the Nazi Leaders | 153 |
Secretary of State George Marshall Announces a Plan to Save | 163 |
19501959 | 171 |
Nobel Laureate William Faulkner Expresses His Heartfelt Belief That | 179 |
Democratic Governor Adlai Stevenson Reminds Members of His Party | 188 |
John W Davis Contends That Separate but Equal Is a Matter for | 196 |
Environmentalist Rachel Carson Muses on the Exceeding Beauty | 202 |
Jack Kerouac in a Rare Public Appearance Describes What the Beat | 210 |
19601969 | 217 |
Vice President Spiro Agnew Blasts the Effete Corps of Impudent | 286 |
TV Reporter Dorothy Fuldheim Who Covered the Kent State | 298 |
Actress Jane Fonda Broadcasts ProCommunist Radio Messages | 305 |
Representative Barbara Jordan Argues for the Impeachment | 312 |
Astronomer Carl Sagan Discusses the Implications of Finding Life | 322 |
Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer Reflects on the Role of Stories | 327 |
President Jimmy Carter Addresses the Crisis of Confidence | 335 |
Presidential Candidate Ronald Reagan Vows a National Crusade | 341 |
UN Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick Excoriates the Soviet Union | 349 |
Susan Baker of the PMRC Recommends Putting Warning Labels | 360 |
President Ronald Reagan Honors the Memory of the Seven Astronauts | 366 |
An Unrepentent Oliver North Defends His Role in the IranContra | 370 |
Ryan White Relates the Prejudices and Hatred He Has Endured Since | 377 |
19901999 | 383 |
President George Bush Announces the Allied Air Attack on Saddam | 389 |
The Reverend Cecil L Murray During the L A Riots Implores | 397 |
Barbra Streisand Defends the Role of the Artsand Actors | 407 |
The Reverend Billy Graham After the Oklahoma City Bombing Offers | 413 |
Defense Attorney Johnnie Cochran Enumerates the Reasons | 420 |
Bill Henderson Laments Societys Increasing Dependence | 431 |
Journalist Tom Brokaw Looks Back on the Triumphs and Turmoils | 438 |
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