The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches

By Brian MacArthur

Book Overview

Brings together the words of many men and women who changed the world through the sheer power of their oratory. Gladstone and Disraeli, and Pitt and Fox before them, forged the politics of their age through verbal combat in the House of Commons. Abraham Lincoln transformed the way Americans interpret the Civil War and their national destiny.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140176195
• ISBN13: 9780140176193
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

The Speeches Speak for Themselves

Aren't the speeches in and of themselves, enough to inspire? Why would we need someone else's exhortation about the speeches themselves. They are their own best witnesses of the greatness of each of them. Whether we have a great commentary on them or a horrible one, or none at all, makes no difference to me personally. If I watch a film of a presidential speech, I usually do not stay tuned to have a news commentator tell me what I just heard :) So, these speeches are great in and of themselves, and need no commentary at all, whether good, bad or indifferent. Do we watch a baseball game in its entirety and then immediately switch to a sports channel to find out from THEM how the game went???? We just saw the game!