american speeches

Collects twenty-seven speeches of Barack Obama, including his 2002 speech opposing the Iraq War and his farewell speech in Chicago January 2017.

"Iconic photographs ... transport readers to the 1963 March on Washington, bringing that historic day vividly to life for a new generation"--Amazon.com.

A collection of graduation speeches by Kurt Vonnegut.

A two-volume set that contains more than 270 speeches, sketches, short stories, maxims, and other writings by Mark Twain.

A comprehensive resource that discusses various political and social Congressional debates throughout the history of the nation, covering issues including independence from British rule, slavery, the Bill of Rights, Nixon impeachment, and the Iraq War.

Examines Abraham Lincoln's pre-presidential address at Cooper Union, New York, in February 1860, placing the speech in the context of the times and discussing how Lincoln used the speech to continue his debates with rival Democrat Stephen A. Douglas.

A chronicle, complete with maps, portraits, and other Civil War illustrations, detailing President Abraham Lincoln's historic Second Inaugural Address.

Collects fifteen essays by writers and thinkers such as Adam Mansbach, Connie Schultz, and William Julius Wilson, on the literary, political, social, and cultural importance of Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" speech, which he delivered on March 18, 2008.

Presents speeches given by the twentieth-century's leading African-American cultural, spiritual, and political figures, which includes Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Dick Gregory, Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Martin Luther King Jr., and others.

Contains the unabridged texts of eighty-three speeches by Americans such as Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Franklin Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton, presented in chronological order from 1865 to 1997.