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Words That Ring Through Time: From Moses and Pericles to Obama - Fifty-one of the Most Important Speeches in History and How They Changed Our World - Hardcover
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From Moses to Mandela and others from across time and around the world, Terry Golway has selected speeches that have changed the world through the sheer power of their oratory. Each selection is illuminated with an insightful essay setting the speech squarely in its historical context and detailing its impact and consequences. In doing so, Golway allows us to fully understand their importance and effect. Including speeches from Pericles, Cicero, Jesus, Muhammad, Thomas More, Queen Elizabeth I, Oliver Cromwell, George Washington, Robespierre, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon, Karl Marx, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Emperor Hirohito, Ho Chi Minh, Winston Churchill, Khrushchev, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama and many more, this book is an historic achievement. Much more than a reference volume, it is a series of windows into our past, presented by a gifted storyteller.
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From Moses to Mandela and others from across time and around the world, this work features speeches that have changed the world through the sheer power of their oratory. It sets the speech squarely in its historical context and details its impact and consequences.
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'Terry Golway has provided the reader with addresses whose importance changed the course of world history... each speech is prefaced with an insightful analysis that places the document in historical context and gives the reader an expanded understanding of those events that have shaped our world today' --Robert Remini
'The drama and power of the speeches in this book is made accessible by Terry Golway's quick and clear introductions to them. They supply the context we need to experience the force and importance of these epoch-marking orations' --Nicholas von Hoffman
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- PublisherGerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0715638904
- ISBN 13 9780715638903
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages416
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