Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches In HistoryWilliam Safire W. W. Norton & Company, 2004 M10 5 - 1157 pages The definitive compendium of classic and modern oratory expanded—with a new preface on what makes a speech "great." An instant classic when it was first published a decade ago and now enriched by seventeen new speeches, Lend Me Your Ears contains more than two hundred outstanding moments of oratory. It is selected, arranged, and introduced by William Safire, who honed his skills as a presidential speechwriter. He is considered by many to be America's most influential political columnist and most elegant explicator of our language. Covering speeches from Demosthenes to George W. Bush, this latest edition includes the words of Cromwell to the "Rump Parliament," Orson Welles eulogizing Darryl F. Zanuck, General George Patton exhorting his troops before D-Day, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking on Bush v. Gore. A new section incorporates speeches that were never delivered: what Kennedy was scheduled to say in Dallas; what Safire wrote for Nixon if the first moon landing met with disaster; and what Clinton originally planned to say after his grand jury testimony but swapped for a much fiercer speech. |
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... Defends Proletarian Dictatorship 130 Mussolini Justifies His Invasion of Ethiopia 133 Hitler Declares Germany's ... Defend the Falkland Islands 166 Israel's Yitzhak Rabin Shakes Hands with His Lifelong Enemy 170 III . Tributes and ...
... Defends Proletarian Dictatorship 130 Mussolini Justifies His Invasion of Ethiopia 133 Hitler Declares Germany's ... Defend the Falkland Islands 166 Israel's Yitzhak Rabin Shakes Hands with His Lifelong Enemy 170 III . Tributes and ...
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... 321 331 V. Trials Job Pleads the Record of a Good Life against God's Inexplicable Punishment 339 Martin Luther Addresses the Diet of Worms 344 Sir Thomas More Defends Himself against Charges of Treason 347 12 CONTENTS.
... 321 331 V. Trials Job Pleads the Record of a Good Life against God's Inexplicable Punishment 339 Martin Luther Addresses the Diet of Worms 344 Sir Thomas More Defends Himself against Charges of Treason 347 12 CONTENTS.
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... Defends His Beliefs 363 Defense Lawyer Clarence Darrow Answers a Supporter of Capital Punishment 369 Cuban Rebel Fidel Castro Defies His Captors and 356 Predicts That History Will Absolve Him Soviet Dissident Anatoly Shcharansky Defies ...
... Defends His Beliefs 363 Defense Lawyer Clarence Darrow Answers a Supporter of Capital Punishment 369 Cuban Rebel Fidel Castro Defies His Captors and 356 Predicts That History Will Absolve Him Soviet Dissident Anatoly Shcharansky Defies ...
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... Defends His Union's Right to Strike FDR Reminds the Daughters of the Walter Lippmann Scores His Generational Cohort 686 700 American Revolution about Their Lineage for Having Taken " the Easy Way " 705 Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch ...
... Defends His Union's Right to Strike FDR Reminds the Daughters of the Walter Lippmann Scores His Generational Cohort 686 700 American Revolution about Their Lineage for Having Taken " the Easy Way " 705 Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch ...
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Contents
IV | 41 |
V | 47 |
VI | 48 |
VII | 51 |
VIII | 56 |
IX | 59 |
X | 61 |
XI | 63 |
CXXIX | 533 |
CXXX | 535 |
CXXXI | 537 |
CXXXII | 543 |
CXXXIII | 545 |
CXXXIV | 547 |
CXXXV | 549 |
CXXXVI | 551 |
XII | 67 |
XIII | 71 |
XIV | 74 |
XV | 79 |
XVI | 83 |
XVII | 89 |
XVIII | 91 |
XIX | 93 |
XX | 95 |
XXI | 96 |
XXII | 101 |
XXIII | 103 |
XXIV | 107 |
XXV | 110 |
XXVI | 111 |
XXVII | 113 |
XXVIII | 116 |
XXIX | 120 |
XXX | 121 |
XXXI | 130 |
XXXII | 133 |
XXXIII | 136 |
XXXIV | 143 |
XXXV | 146 |
XXXVI | 151 |
XXXVII | 156 |
XXXVIII | 158 |
XXXIX | 162 |
XL | 166 |
XLI | 170 |
XLII | 175 |
XLIII | 177 |
XLIV | 183 |
XLV | 185 |
XLVI | 186 |
XLVII | 190 |
XLVIII | 192 |
XLIX | 195 |
L | 201 |
LI | 204 |
LII | 206 |
LIII | 210 |
LIV | 213 |
LV | 216 |
LVI | 221 |
LVII | 223 |
LVIII | 226 |
LIX | 229 |
LX | 231 |
LXI | 233 |
LXII | 236 |
LXIII | 240 |
LXIV | 241 |
LXV | 244 |
LXVI | 249 |
LXVII | 251 |
LXVIII | 255 |
LXIX | 257 |
LXX | 264 |
LXXI | 267 |
LXXII | 270 |
LXXIII | 283 |
LXXIV | 295 |
LXXV | 298 |
LXXVI | 303 |
LXXVII | 307 |
LXXVIII | 313 |
LXXIX | 317 |
LXXX | 321 |
LXXXI | 331 |
LXXXII | 337 |
LXXXIII | 339 |
LXXXIV | 344 |
LXXXV | 347 |
LXXXVI | 350 |
LXXXVII | 356 |
LXXXVIII | 360 |
LXXXIX | 363 |
XC | 369 |
XCI | 378 |
XCII | 383 |
XCIII | 385 |
XCIV | 391 |
XCV | 393 |
XCVI | 397 |
XCVII | 403 |
XCVIII | 406 |
XCIX | 409 |
C | 418 |
CI | 421 |
CII | 423 |
CIII | 425 |
CIV | 431 |
CV | 435 |
CVI | 443 |
CVII | 449 |
CVIII | 451 |
CIX | 453 |
CX | 459 |
CXI | 460 |
CXII | 464 |
CXIII | 470 |
CXIV | 473 |
CXVI | 476 |
CXVII | 479 |
CXVIII | 485 |
CXIX | 488 |
CXX | 493 |
CXXI | 496 |
CXXII | 499 |
CXXIII | 501 |
CXXIV | 506 |
CXXV | 511 |
CXXVI | 516 |
CXXVII | 519 |
CXXVIII | 527 |
CXXXVII | 556 |
CXXXVIII | 558 |
CXXXIX | 560 |
CXL | 565 |
CXLI | 567 |
CXLII | 574 |
CXLIII | 578 |
CXLIV | 589 |
CXLV | 591 |
CXLVI | 595 |
CXLVII | 598 |
CXLVIII | 606 |
CXLIX | 611 |
CL | 613 |
CLI | 617 |
CLII | 619 |
CLIII | 624 |
CLIV | 628 |
CLV | 634 |
CLVI | 639 |
CLVII | 646 |
CLVIII | 655 |
CLIX | 657 |
CLX | 672 |
CLXI | 678 |
CLXII | 681 |
CLXIII | 684 |
CLXIV | 686 |
CLXV | 690 |
CLXVI | 694 |
CLXVII | 696 |
CLXVIII | 700 |
CLXIX | 703 |
CLXX | 705 |
CLXXI | 710 |
CLXXII | 713 |
CLXXIII | 718 |
CLXXIV | 722 |
CLXXV | 726 |
CLXXVI | 735 |
CLXXVII | 739 |
CLXXVIII | 744 |
CLXXIX | 751 |
CLXXX | 758 |
CLXXXI | 763 |
CLXXXIII | 765 |
CLXXXIV | 771 |
CLXXXV | 779 |
CLXXXVI | 788 |
CLXXXVII | 797 |
CLXXXVIII | 805 |
CLXXXIX | 812 |
CXC | 817 |
CXCI | 823 |
CXCII | 828 |
CXCIII | 837 |
CXCIV | 846 |
CXCV | 851 |
CXCVI | 853 |
CXCVII | 860 |
CXCVIII | 862 |
CXCIX | 870 |
CC | 872 |
CCI | 877 |
CCII | 885 |
CCIII | 887 |
CCIV | 891 |
CCV | 894 |
CCVI | 901 |
CCVII | 909 |
CCVIII | 913 |
CCIX | 915 |
CCX | 922 |
CCXI | 927 |
CCXII | 932 |
CCXIII | 936 |
CCXIV | 942 |
CCXV | 954 |
CCXVI | 956 |
CCXVII | 959 |
CCXVIII | 962 |
CCXIX | 969 |
CCXX | 973 |
CCXXI | 977 |
CCXXII | 985 |
CCXXIII | 998 |
CCXXIV | 1002 |
CCXXV | 1005 |
CCXXVI | 1010 |
CCXXVII | 1019 |
CCXXVIII | 1025 |
CCXXIX | 1030 |
CCXXX | 1040 |
CCXXXI | 1046 |
CCXXXII | 1056 |
CCXXXIII | 1058 |
CCXXXIV | 1065 |
CCXXXV | 1073 |
CCXXXVI | 1075 |
CCXXXVII | 1077 |
CCXXXVIII | 1084 |
CCXXXIX | 1089 |
CCXL | 1093 |
CCXLI | 1098 |
CCXLII | 1104 |
CCXLIII | 1109 |
CCXLIV | 1114 |
CCXLV | 1118 |
CCXLVI | 1125 |
CCXLVII | 1133 |
CCXLVIII | 1135 |
CCXLIX | 1139 |
CCL | 1142 |
CCLI | 1147 |
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