In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American CenturyRobert G. Torricelli, Andrew Carroll Simon and Schuster, 2000 - 450 من الصفحات This bestselling collection of American oratory is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: a record of twentieth-century America captured in the words that inspired and infuriated, electrified and galvanized its people. Decade by decade, generation to generation, history unfolds in the famous and infamous expressions of Americans from all walks of life: poets and politicians, artists and astronauts, soldiers and sports legends, preachers and pacifists, humorists and hell-raisers. In Our Own Words bears witness to the forces that swept our nation -- two World Wars, Prohibition, the Depression, the Cold War, the Civil Rights era, Vietnam, the Reagan era, and beyond -- and features the voices of Theodore Roosevelt * Booker T. Washington * Mark Twain * Emma Goldman * Woodrow Wilson * Marcus Garvey * Oliver Wendell Holmes * George S. Patton * Pearl Buck * Orson Welles * Jackie Robinson * Joseph McCarthy * Rachel Carson * Vince Lombardi * Barry Goldwater * John F. Kennedy * J. Edgar Hoover * Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. * Malcolm X * Richard M. Nixon * Frank Zappa * Elie Wiesel * Charlton Heston * Ryan White * Duke Ellington * Billy Graham * Barbara Jordan * Bill Clinton * Cesar Chavez * Helen Keller...and dozens of others who tell the story of their age from their podiums and soapboxes, courtrooms and convention halls. |
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الصفحة viii
... United States / 25 The Reverend Reverdy Ransom on "White Supremacy" and an Upcoming Boxing Match Between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries / 26. igio-igig. Anarchist Emma Goldman Derides Patriotism as a "Menace to Liberty" / 31 Union Activist ...
... United States / 25 The Reverend Reverdy Ransom on "White Supremacy" and an Upcoming Boxing Match Between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries / 26. igio-igig. Anarchist Emma Goldman Derides Patriotism as a "Menace to Liberty" / 31 Union Activist ...
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... United States / 86. 1930-1939. Oscar Ameringer Describes Intolerable Suffering Throughout the United States as a Result of the Great Depression / 93 Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, on His Ninetieth Birthday, Offers Profound Advice on Life ...
... United States / 86. 1930-1939. Oscar Ameringer Describes Intolerable Suffering Throughout the United States as a Result of the Great Depression / 93 Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, on His Ninetieth Birthday, Offers Profound Advice on Life ...
الصفحة xii
... United Nations to Authorize the Creation of a Homeland for Jews in Palestine / 160 Secretary of State George Marshall Announces a Plan to Save War-Ravaged Europe from Descending into "Chaos" / 163 World-Renowned Performer Paul Robeson ...
... United Nations to Authorize the Creation of a Homeland for Jews in Palestine / 160 Secretary of State George Marshall Announces a Plan to Save War-Ravaged Europe from Descending into "Chaos" / 163 World-Renowned Performer Paul Robeson ...
الصفحة xiii
... United Nations Failed?" / 200 Environmentalist Rachel Carson Muses on the "Exceeding Beauty of the Earth" and Its Effect on the Human Spirit / 202 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Encourages His Students to Create Buildings That Are ...
... United Nations Failed?" / 200 Environmentalist Rachel Carson Muses on the "Exceeding Beauty of the Earth" and Its Effect on the Human Spirit / 202 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Encourages His Students to Create Buildings That Are ...
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عذرًا، محتوى هذه الصفحة مقيَّد.
عذرًا، محتوى هذه الصفحة مقيَّد.
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1900igOg | 1 |
Anarchist Emma Goldman Derides Patriotism as a Menace | 31 |
Oscar Ameringer Describes Intolerable Suffering Throughout | 93 |
Baseball Great Lou Gehrig Suffering from a Fatal Disease Thanks | 115 |
Journalist Dorothy Thompson Imagines the Horror of a World | 130 |
General Dwight D Eisenhower Drafts a Message of Apology | 138 |
Death of Franklin D Roosevelt | 144 |
General Douglas MacArthur Offers Words of Peace After Japan Signs | 147 |
Nobel Laureate WiUiam Faulkner Expresses His Heartfelt Belief That | 179 |
Segregation | 228 |
Dr Martin Luther King Jr Electrifies a Nation with His Call for | 234 |
President John E Kennedy Pays Tribute to the Poet Robert Frost | 242 |
Senator Barry Goldwater Exclaims at the 1964 Republican Convention | 249 |
Presidential Candidate Ronald Reagan Vows a National Crusade | 341 |
Student Dissident ShenTong Offers a Firsthand Account of the Violent | 385 |
The Reverend Billy Graham After the Oklahoma City Bombing Offers | 413 |
Robert H Jackson Demands a Verdict of Guilty for the Nazi Leaders | 153 |
Secretary of State George Marshall Announces a Plan to Save | 163 |
19501959 | 171 |
Bill Henderson Laments Societys Increasing Dependence | 431 |
Journalist Tom Brokaw Looks Back on the Triumphs and Turmoils | 438 |
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