Speeches that reshaped the world / Alan J. Whiticker
- Bib ID:
- 4384581
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Whiticker, Alan
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Chatswood, N.S.W. : New Holland, 2008
- 347 p. : ill., col. ports. ; 31 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781741107265
- Summary:
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"Speeches that Reshaped the World is a collection of sixty of the greatest speeches of modern times: speeches that not only shaped and changed the world but also moved us to action - emotionally, politically and socially." "Many of these speeches are iconic signposts in the passage of time: Winston Churchill's 'We Shall Fight on the Beaches', Franklin Roosevelt's 'A Day That Will Live in Infamy' and John Kennedy's 'Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You'. Others remain relatively unknown: Bishop Romero's 'Stop the Repression' sermon and New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange's speech 'Nuclear Weapons are Morally Indefensible'."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Machine derived contents note:
- Introduction: The Power of Oratory 10
- Politics 12
- King George V 'The Eyes of the Whole Empire are on Ireland', 1921, Great Britain 14
- Richard Nixon The 'Checkers Speech', 1952, USA 18
- Dwight D. Eisenhower 'Farewell Address', 1961, USA 26
- John F. Kennedy 'Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You...', 1961, USA 32
- Harold Holt 'All the Way with LBJ', 1966, Australia 37
- Lyndon Johnson 'I Shall Not Seek the Nomination', 1968, USA 41
- Robert Kennedy 'California Primary Victory Speech', 1968, USA 46
- Queen Elizabeth II 'Opening of the New Parliament House', 1988, Great Britain 50
- F. W. de Klerk 'Nelson Mandela Released', 1990, South Africa 54
- Richard Gephardt 'In Defence of Bill Clinton', 1998, USA 58
- Civil Rights 62
- Mark Twain 'Women's Suffrage', 1901, USA 64
- Mohandas K. Gandhi 'The Great Trial', 1922, India 67
- Will Rogers 'I Am Here Tonight Representing Poverty', 1924, USA 73
- Clarence Darrow 'The History of the Negro Race', 1926, USA 76
- Edward R. Murrow 'Against McCarthyism', 1954, USA 81
- Martin Luther King 'I've Seen the Promised Land', 1968, USA 84
- Chaim Herzog 'Response to "Zionism is Racism"', 1975, Israel 89
- Cesar Chavez 'Lessons of Dr Martin Luther King', 1990, USA 97
- Julian Bond 'Eulogy for Rosa Parks', 2005, USA 104
- Lee C. Bollinger 'Introduction to the President of Iran', 2007, USA 109
- War 16
- Leon Trotsky 'Brest-Litvosk Speech', 1918, Russia 118
- Woodrow Wilson 'Fourteen-Point Peace Plan', 1918, USA 122
- Benito Mussolini 'Invasion of Abyssinia', 1935, Italy 127
- Adolf Hitler 'The Obersalzburg Speech', 1939, Germany 131
- Edouard Daladier 'The Nazis' Aim is Slavery', 1940, France 137
- Winston Churchill 'We Shall Fight on the Beaches', 1940, Great Britain 140
- Franklin D. Roosevelt 'A Day That Will Live in Infamy', 1941, USA 143
- Harry S. Truman 'MacArthur and Korea', 195 1, USA 147
- George H. Bush 'Operation Desert Storm', 1991, USA 152
- George W. Bush 'Pre-Invasion of Iraq Speech', 2002, USA 158
- Great Women 168
- Helen Keller 'Against the War', 1916, USA 170
- Carrie Chapman Catt 'The Crisis', 1916, USA 176
- Eleanor Roosevelt 'The Struggle for Human Rights', 1948, USA 184
- Barbara Jordan 'Articles of Impeachment of the President', 1974, USA 191
- Margaret Thatcher 'Speech to the Foreign Policy Association', 1979, Great Britain 197
- Ann Richards 'We Can Do Better', 1988, USA 204
- Benazir Bhutto 'Address to the US Congress', 1989, Pakistan 211
- Aung San Suu Kyi 'Freedom of Thought', 1997, Burma 219
- Elizabeth Glaser 'AIDS: A Personal Story', 1992, USA 225
- Hillary Clinton 'On Women's Rights', 1995, USA 230
- Change 236
- William McKinley 'Final Speech at Buffalo', 1901, USA 238
- Tsar Nicolas II 'Abdication Announcement', 1917, Russia 242
- Fidel Castro 'History Will Absolve Me', 1953, Cuba 246
- Ernesto 'Che' Guevara 'On Revolutionary Medicine', 1960, Cuba 253
- Nelson Mandela 'I Am the First Accused', 1964, South Africa 261
- Malcolm X 'The Bullet or the Ballot', 1964, USA 267
- Salvador Allende 'Farewell Speech to the People of Chile', 1973, Chile 272
- Bishop Oscar Romero 'Stop the Repression!', 1980, El Salvador 276
- Benino Aquino 'The Sacrifice of the Innocent', 1983, The Philippines 281
- Slobodan Milosevik 'Gazimestan Speech', 1989, Kosovo 285
- Peace and Reconciliation 292
- Atatürk 'Message to the Gallipoli Fallen', 1934, Turkey 294
- Golda Meir 'For the Attainment of Peace', 1970, Israel 298
- David Lange 'Nuclear Weapons are Indefensible', 1985, New Zealand 304
- Ronald Reagan 'The Challenger Disaster', 1986, USA 313
- Paul Keating 'Eulogy for the Unknown Soldier', 1993, Australia 318
- Boris Yeltsin 'Yekaterinburg Apology', 1998, Russia 322
- Edward Kennedy 'Eulogy for John Kennedy Jr', 1999, USA 325
- Pope John Paul II 'Holocaust Speech', 2000, Israel 330
- Tony Blair 'Farewell to Politics', 2007, Great Britain 334
- Kevin Rudd 'Apology to Indigenous Australians', 2008, Australia 340
- Bibliography 346.
- Notes:
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- Portraits on lining papers.
- Bibliography: p. 346-347.
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Whiticker, Alan
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