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Great Speeches in Minutes

By Field, Jacob F.

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Great Speeches in Minutes

By Field, Jacob F.

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200 historic speeches and the stories behind them "I have a dream", "Government of the people, by the people, for the people", "This was their finest hour", "Tear down this wall", "Give me liberty, or give me death", "Free at last!". They are the great words of history, inspiring war and peace, outrage and justice, rebellion and freedom. Great Speeches in Minutes presents the key extracts of 200 of the orations that changed the world, from antiquity to the modern day. Each is accompanied by an explanation of the historic context of the speech and its momentous consequences. Includes the speeches of: Buddha, Socrates, Alexander the Great, Cicero, Julius Caesar, Jesus, Augustine of Hippo, Muhammad, Joan of Arc, Martin Luther, Elizabeth I, Oliver Cromwell, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte, Simon Bolivar, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Abraham Lincoln, Emmeline Pankhurst, Patrick Pearse, Vladimir Lenin, David Lloyd George, Albert Einstein, Mahatma Gandhi, Franklin D Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Lyndon B Johnson, Muhammad Ali, Mother Teresa, Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, The Dalai Lama, Václav Havel, Pope John Paul II, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and many more.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
416
Release Date:
2019-11-07
Publication Date:
2019-11-07
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1787477231
ISBN13:
9781787477230
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
335 g
Height:
124 cm
Width:
128 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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