Writing Great Speeches

Writing Great Speeches

Author: Alan M. Perlman

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780205273003

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A guide to writing an outstanding speech offers tips on communicating effectively, including how to build credibility, organize a speech, use rhythm and style, and create a powerful ending.


Great Speeches For Better Speaking

Great Speeches For Better Speaking

Author: Michael E. Eidenmuller

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2008-06-25

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0071817212

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Master the art of persuasion with lessons from the best speakers of our time. Throughout history, they have moved us. They have enlightened and inspired us. They are our nation's most influential speakers, gifted with the talent to change minds and hearts. What is the almost magical power they possess--and how can you harness it for yourself? The answers are here in this illuminating guide to unforgettable oratory. Complete with a ninety-minute CD featuring six great speeches in their entirety, this tool kit for speakers takes you through an in-depth analysis of these historically significant speeches and the secrets of their eloquent effectiveness. With close examination of each speech, you'll get lessons on how to: Address a difficult situation with help from the Great Communicator, Ronald Reagan Bring divergent interests together with effective arguments like Edward Kennedy Capture and hold your audience's attention by mastering General Douglas MacArthur's structual techniques Style a formal speech with the elegance of John F. Kennedy Maximize your delivery by studying the power of Barbara Jordan's voice Use Mary Fisher's special rhetorical tactics to sway even the toughest audience


A Testament of Hope

A Testament of Hope

Author: Martin Luther King

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1990-12-07

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13: 9780060646912

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"We've got some difficult days ahead," civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., told a crowd gathered at Memphis's Clayborn Temple on April 3, 1968. "But it really doesn't matter to me now because I've been to the mountaintop. . . . And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land." These prohetic words, uttered the day before his assassination, challenged those he left behind to see that his "promised land" of racial equality became a reality; a reality to which King devoted the last twelve years of his life. These words and other are commemorated here in the only major one-volume collection of this seminal twentieth-century American prophet's writings, speeches, interviews, and autobiographical reflections. A Testament of Hope contains Martin Luther King, Jr.'s essential thoughts on nonviolence, social policy, integration, black nationalism, the ethics of love and hope, and more.


Great Speeches

Great Speeches

Author: Edward Humphreys

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing

Published: 2023-07-01

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1398827878

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Great Speeches collects over 40 of the most powerful and stirring addresses delivered in history. It captures significant historical events of the past 400 years in the words of their participants, from speeches given in times of war and sorrow to those delivered in moments of hope. This classic collection includes such famous speeches as: • Susan B. Anthony - 'On a Woman's Right to Vote' • Winston Churchill - 'Their Finest Hour' • John F. Kennedy - 'Ich bin ein Berliner' • Nelson Mandela - 'Inaugural Address' • Greta Thunberg - 'You have stolen my dreams and my childhood.'


Books and Reading

Books and Reading

Author: Bill Bradfield

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2002-08-14

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13: 0486424634

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Presents a collection of quotations about books and reading, from politcal figures, writers, and celebrities, including Mark Twain, Oprah Winfrey, W.H. Auden, Jerry Seinfeld, and Virginia Wolf, among others.


Undelivered

Undelivered

Author: Jeff Nussbaum

Publisher: Flatiron Books

Published: 2022-05-10

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1250240719

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A fascinating insight into notable speeches that were never delivered, showing what could have been if history had gone down a different path For almost every delivered speech, there exists an undelivered opposite. These "second speeches" provide alternative histories of what could have been if not for schedule changes, changes of heart, or momentous turns of events. In Undelivered, political speechwriter Jeff Nussbaum presents the most notable speeches the public never heard, from Dwight Eisenhower’s apology for a D-Day failure to Richard Nixon’s refusal to resign the presidency, and even Hillary Clinton’s acceptance for a 2016 victory—the latter never seen until now. Examining the content of these speeches and the context of the historic moments that almost came to be, Nussbaum considers not only what they tell us about the past but also what they can inform us about our present.


Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings Vol. 2 1859-1865 (LOA #46)

Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings Vol. 2 1859-1865 (LOA #46)

Author: Abraham Lincoln

Publisher: Library of America

Published: 1989-10-01

Total Pages: 844

ISBN-13: 9780940450639

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Abraham Lincoln was the greatest writer of the Civil War as well as its greatest political leader. His clear, beautiful, and at times uncompromisingly severe language forever shaped the nation’s understanding of its most terrible conflict. This volume, along with its companion, Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832–1858, comprises the most comprehensive selection ever published. Over 550 speeches, messages, proclamations, letters, and other writings—including the Inaugural and Gettysburg addresses and the moving condolence letter to Mrs. Bixby—record the words and deeds with which Lincoln defended, preserved, and redefined the Union. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.