American speeches / Widmer, Edward L

Contains the unabridged texts of forty-five speeches by Americans such as George Washington, Patrick Henry, Daniel Webster, Sojourner Truth, and Abraham Lincoln, presented in chronological order from 1761 to 1865.

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.

Contains forty-seven notable political speeches from throughout the history of the United States, from Patrick Henry's 1775 address before the Virginia Convention, to Barack Obama's 2008 meditation on race.