Great Speeches For Better Speaking (Book + Audio CD): Listen and Learn from History's Most Memorable Speeches (NTC REFERENCE) - Softcover

Eidenmuller, Michael E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071472290 ISBN 13: 9780071472296

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2008

Synopsis

Learn the secrets of captivating an audience from the greatest orators of all time

What person faced with speaking in public wouldn’t want some pointers from great speakers like John F. Kennedy or Ronald Reagan? Now you can. Michael E. Eidenmuller, founder of American-Rhetoric.com, outlines the six areas that are critical for making an impact with a speech--situation, content, structure, style, delivery, rhetorical strategies and tactics. He then shows the best uses of these elements in practice by featuring six great speeches on an audio CD. The unique combination of text and audio will help you understand what makes a particular speech memorable and inspiring and incorporate this knowledge into your own speeches.

Features speeches by:

Ronald Reagan * John F. Kennedy * Douglas MacArthur * Barbara Jordan * Edward Kennedy * Mary Fisher

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Title: Great Speeches for Better Speaking <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: Eidenmuller, Michael E. <>Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL Professional

About the Author:

Michael E. Eidenmuller, Ph.D., is an associate professor of speech communication at the University of Texas at Tyler and the founder of AmericanRhetoric.com, the Internet's largest database of freely available, complete speeches in both text and audio format. He lives in Whitehouse, Texas.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0071472290
• ISBN 13: 9780071472296
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256