The World Is Waiting for You: Graduation Speeches to Live by from Activists, Writers, and Visionaries
ISBN 10: 1620970902 ISBN 13: 9781620970904
Published by New Press, 2015
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Synopsis:
The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don't listen to them"""", cautioned acclaimed author and award-winning journalist Anna Quindlen, in a commencement speech for Grinnell College. With more than a dozen contemporary graduation speeches that dissect the world as it is and imagine what it could be, The World is Waiting for You brings forth the courageous people who've dared to transform the podium into a pulpit for championing peace, justice, protest and a better world.
About the Author:
Tara Grove is the education editor at The New Press. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and lives in New York City. Isabel Ostrer is a recent graduate of Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They both went to college to figure out how they could make the world a more humane place to live.
List of Contributors/Speech Locations
Anna Quindlen - Grinnell College, 2011 (Grinnell, Iowa)
Wynton Marsalis - Connecticut College, 2001 (New London, Connecticut)
Barbara Kingsolver - Duke University, 2008 (Durham, North Carolina)
Marian Wright Edelman - Muhlenberg College, 2008 (Allentown, Pennsylvania)
Noam Chomsky - American University of Beirut, 2013 (Lebanon)
Toni Morrison - Rutgers University, 2011 (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
Gloria Steinem - Smith College, 2007 (Northampton, Massachusetts)
Tony Kushner - Vassar College, 2002 (Poughkeepsie, New York)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Kalamazoo College, 2009 (Kalamazoo, Michigan)
Paul Farmer - University of Delaware, 2013 (Newark, Delaware)
Martha Nussbaum - Connecticut College, 2009 (New London, Connecticut)
Oliver Stone - UCLA, 2009 (Los Angeles, California)
Paul Hawken - University of Portland, 2009 (Portland, Oregon)
Isabel Wilkerson - Bates College, 2014 (Lewiston, Maine)
Howard Zinn - Spelman College, 2005 (Atlanta, Georgia)
Cecile Richards - Barnard College, 2014 (New York, New York)
Theodore Shaw - Wesleyan University, 2014 (Middletown, Connecticut)
Ursula K. Le Guin - Mills College, 1983 (Oakland, California)
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Bibliographic Details
Title: The World Is Waiting for You: Graduation ...
Publisher: New Press
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket