American Speeches Vol. 1 (LOA #166)

American Speeches Vol. 1 (LOA #166)

Author: Edward L. Widmer

Publisher:

Published: 2006-10-05

Total Pages: 840

ISBN-13:

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A historian and former presidential speechwriter presents an unprecedented two-volume collection of the greatest speeches in American history.


The Roar of the Lion

The Roar of the Lion

Author: Richard Toye

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-08-22

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0199642524

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The essential book on Winston Churchill's classic World War II speeches - one that will change the way we think about Churchill's oratory forever.


Landmark Speeches on the Vietnam War

Landmark Speeches on the Vietnam War

Author: Gregory Allen Olson

Publisher: TAMU Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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The fourteen key speeches collected in this volume trace both the evolution of U.S. policy and its contestation.


The Gettysburg Address

The Gettysburg Address

Author: Abraham Lincoln

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2022-11-29

Total Pages: 9

ISBN-13: 1504080246

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The complete text of one of the most important speeches in American history, delivered by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to remember not only the grim bloodshed that had just occurred there, but also to remember the American ideals that were being put to the ultimate test by the Civil War. A rousing appeal to the nation’s better angels, The Gettysburg Address remains an inspiring vision of the United States as a country “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”


Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered

Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered

Author: John Channing Briggs

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2005-06-16

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780801881060

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In this close examination, John Channing Briggs reveals how the process of studying, writing, and delivering speeches helped Lincoln develop the ideas with which he would so profoundly change history.


The Peace War

The Peace War

Author: Vernor Vinge

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 2007-04-01

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1429915110

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First in a quintessential hard-science fiction adventure, Hugo Award-winning author Vernor Vinge's The Peace War follows a scientist determined to put an end to the militarization of his greatest invention--and of the government behind it. The Peace Authority conquered the world with a weapon that never should have been a weapon--the "bobble," a spherical force-field impenetrable by any force known to mankind. Encasing governmental installations and military bases in bobbles, the Authority becomes virtually omnipotent. But they've never caught Paul Hoehler, the maverick who invented the technology, and who has been working quietly for decades to develop a way to defeat the Authority. With the help of an underground network of determined, independent scientists and a teenager who may be the apprentice genius he's needed for so long, he will shake the world. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.


Perilous Times

Perilous Times

Author: Geoffrey R. Stone

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 758

ISBN-13: 9780393058802

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Geoffrey Stone's Perilous Times incisively investigates how the First Amendment and other civil liberties have been compromised in America during wartime. Stone delineates the consistent suppression of free speech in six historical periods from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the Vietnam War, and ends with a coda that examines the state of civil liberties in the Bush era. Full of fresh legal and historical insight, Perilous Times magisterially presents a dramatic cast of characters who influenced the course of history over a two-hundred-year period: from the presidents—Adams, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, and Nixon—to the Supreme Court justices—Taney, Holmes, Brandeis, Black, and Warren—to the resisters—Clement Vallandingham, Emma Goldman, Fred Korematsu, and David Dellinger. Filled with dozens of rare photographs, posters, and historical illustrations, Perilous Times is resonant in its call for a new approach in our response to grave crises.


Landmark Speeches on US Pacifism

Landmark Speeches on US Pacifism

Author: Susan Schultz Huxman

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13:

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United States peace rhetoric is courageous, diverse, challenging, persuasive, and woefully under-exposed. This collection of landmark speeches in peace gives overdue scholarly notice to key figures on the American peace scene (politicians, athletes, journalists, preachers, movement leaders, scientists, doctors, academics, etc.) who have given vibrant, authentic voice and rhetorical significance to the important peace tradition in the United States from World War I until today.


The New Nationalism

The New Nationalism

Author: Theodore Roosevelt

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781019297476

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