In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century

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Robert G. Torricelli, Andrew Carroll
Simon and Schuster, 2000 - 450 страница
This bestselling collection of American oratory is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: a record of twentieth-century America captured in the words that inspired and infuriated, electrified and galvanized its people. Decade by decade, generation to generation, history unfolds in the famous and infamous expressions of Americans from all walks of life: poets and politicians, artists and astronauts, soldiers and sports legends, preachers and pacifists, humorists and hell-raisers.
In Our Own Words bears witness to the forces that swept our nation -- two World Wars, Prohibition, the Depression, the Cold War, the Civil Rights era, Vietnam, the Reagan era, and beyond -- and features the voices of Theodore Roosevelt * Booker T. Washington * Mark Twain * Emma Goldman * Woodrow Wilson * Marcus Garvey * Oliver Wendell Holmes * George S. Patton * Pearl Buck * Orson Welles * Jackie Robinson * Joseph McCarthy * Rachel Carson * Vince Lombardi * Barry Goldwater * John F. Kennedy * J. Edgar Hoover * Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. * Malcolm X * Richard M. Nixon * Frank Zappa * Elie Wiesel * Charlton Heston * Ryan White * Duke Ellington * Billy Graham * Barbara Jordan * Bill Clinton * Cesar Chavez * Helen Keller...and dozens of others who tell the story of their age from their podiums and soapboxes, courtrooms and convention halls.

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Anarchist Emma Goldman Derides Patriotism as a Menace
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Oscar Ameringer Describes Intolerable Suffering Throughout
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Baseball Great Lou Gehrig Suffering from a Fatal Disease Thanks
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Journalist Dorothy Thompson Imagines the Horror of a World
130
General Dwight D Eisenhower Drafts a Message of Apology
138
Death of Franklin D Roosevelt
144
General Douglas MacArthur Offers Words of Peace After Japan Signs
147
Nobel Laureate WiUiam Faulkner Expresses His Heartfelt Belief That
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Segregation
228
Dr Martin Luther King Jr Electrifies a Nation with His Call for
234
President John E Kennedy Pays Tribute to the Poet Robert Frost
242
Senator Barry Goldwater Exclaims at the 1964 Republican Convention
249
Presidential Candidate Ronald Reagan Vows a National Crusade
341
Student Dissident ShenTong Offers a Firsthand Account of the Violent
385
The Reverend Billy Graham After the Oklahoma City Bombing Offers
413

Robert H Jackson Demands a Verdict of Guilty for the Nazi Leaders
153
Secretary of State George Marshall Announces a Plan to Save
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Bill Henderson Laments Societys Increasing Dependence
431
Journalist Tom Brokaw Looks Back on the Triumphs and Turmoils
438
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Andrew Carroll is the founder of the Legacy Project, an all-volunteer effort to preserve United States war letters. Also the executive director of the American Poetry and Literacy Project, which he co-founded. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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