TOP 10 Best Speeches In American History Results at 10Bestify.com

  • Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History (Updated and Expanded Edition)

    The definitive compendium of classic and modern oratory expanded―with a new preface on what makes a speech "great." An instant classic when it was first published a decade ago and now enriched by seventeen new speeches, Lend Me Your Ears contains more than two hundred outstanding moments of oratory. It is selected, arranged, and introduced by William Safire, who honed his skills as a presidential speechwriter. He is considered by many to be America's most influential political columnist and most elegant explicator of our language. Covering speeches from Demosthenes to George W. Bush, this latest edition includes the words of Cromwell to the "Rump Parliament," Orson Welles eulogizing Darryl F. Zanuck, General George Patton exhorting his troops before D-Day, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg speakin... [Read More]
    Best Speeches In American History

    • ASIN: 0393059316
    • ASIN: 0393059316
    • ISBN: 0393059316
    • Brand: W W Norton Company
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • Unfreedom of the Press

    From five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, FOX News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin comes a groundbreaking and enlightening book that shows how the great tradition of the American free press has degenerated into a standardless profession that has squandered the faith and trust of the American public, not through actions of government officials, but through its own abandonment of reportorial integrity and objective journalism.Unfreedom of the Press is not just another book about the press. Levin shows how those entrusted with news reporting today are destroying freedom of the press from within: “not government oppression or suppression,” he writes, but self-censorship, group-think, bias by omission, and passing off opinion, propaganda, pseudo-events, and outright lies as ne... [Read More]
    Best Speeches In American History

    • ASIN: 1476773092
    • ASIN: 1476773092
    • ISBN: 1476773092
    • Brand: Threshold Editions
    • Manufacturer: Threshold Editions

  • Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

    In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces.Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin Laden.Sea Stories begins in 1960 at the American Officers' Club in France, where Allied officers and their wives gathered to have drinks and tell stories about their adventures during World War II -- the place where a young Bill McRaven learned the value of a good story. Sea Stories is an unforgettable look back on one man's incredible life, fro... [Read More]
    Best Speeches In American History

    • ASIN: 1538729741
    • ASIN: 1538729741
    • ISBN: 1538729741
    • Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

  • The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

    A finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in NonfictionA New York Times Notable Book Bloomberg Best Book of 2018The New York Times bestseller!Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising—on campus as well as nationally. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible ideas that have become increasingly woven into American childhood and education: What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker; always trust your feelings; and life is a battle between g... [Read More]
    Best Speeches In American History

    • ASIN: 0735224897
    • ASIN: 0735224897
    • ISBN: 0735224897
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Press

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God

    A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hurston’s classic has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature.
    Best Speeches In American History

    • ASIN: 0061120065
    • ASIN: 0061120065
    • ISBN: 0061120065
    • Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

  • In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century

    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 * Ma... [Read More]
    Best Speeches In American History

    • ASIN: 0743410521
    • ASIN: 0743410521
    • ISBN: 0743410521
    • Manufacturer: Washington Square Press

  • The World's Great Speeches: Fourth Enlarged (1999) Edition

    This outstanding compendium of 292 great speeches contains addresses from nearly every historical era and nation, from the formal orations of ancient Greece and the speeches of Julius Caesar, to modern-day addresses by Nelson Mandela, Ronald Regan and Václav Havel.Among the memorable speeches included here are Pericles' funeral oration, St. Bernard's advocacy of the Second Crusade, William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech, Winston Churchill's "Blood, Sweat and Tears" address, Richard Nixon's speech to the astronauts on the moon, Malcolm X's address on the Black Revolution, and many more. Readers will also find time-honored declamations by St. Francis, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Napoleon, Victor Hugo, Leon Trotzky, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Dylan Thomas, Fulton J. Sheen, Adlai Stevenson,... [Read More]
    Best Speeches In American History

    • ASIN: 0486409031
    • UPC: 800759409037
    • ASIN: 0486409031
    • ISBN: 9780486409030
    • Brand: Dover Publications
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley


    Best Speeches In American History

    • ASIN: 0345350685
    • ASIN: 0345350685
    • ISBN: 0345350685
    • Brand: Ballantine Books
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

  • Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)

    Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Cooper looks at the far-reaching intellectual achievements of female thinkers and activists like Anna Julia Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, Fannie Barrier Williams, Pauli Murray, and Toni Cade Bambara. Cooper delves into the processes that transformed these women and others into racial leadership figures, including long-overdue discussions of their theoretical output and personal experiences. As Cooper shows, their body of work critically reshaped our understandings of race and gender discourse. It also confro... [Read More]
    Best Speeches In American History

    • ASIN: 0252082486
    • ASIN: 0252082486
    • ISBN: 0252082486
    • Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press

  • Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

    NATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARWho are the immensely wealthy right-wing ideologues shaping the fate of America today? From the bestselling author of The Dark Side, an electrifying work of investigative journalism that uncovers the agenda of this powerful group.In her new preface, Jane Mayer discusses the results of the most recent election and Donald Trump's victory, and how, despite much discussion to the contrary, this was a huge victory for the billionaires who have been pouring money in the American political system.Why is America living in an age of profound and widening economic inequality? Why have even modest attempts to address climate change been defeated again and again? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle... [Read More]
    Best Speeches In American History

    • ASIN: 0307947904
    • ASIN: 0307947904
    • ISBN: 0307947904
    • Brand: Anchor
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • Tinkering with Eden : A Natural History of Exotic Species in America

    A fascinating natural history of non-native species currently living and thriving in America focuses on the various experiments, most well-intentioned, that introduced many foriegn life forms to the continent.
    Best Speeches In American History
    Mosquitoes in Hawaii, sea lampreys in the Great Lakes, mountain goats in the Olympic Mountains of Washington State not one of these species is native to the environment in which it now flourishes. Kim Todd's "Tinkering with Eden" is a lyrical, brilliantly written history of the introduction of exotic species into the United Sates, and how the well-meaning endeavors of scientists, explorers, and biologists have resulted in ecological catastrophe. Todd's assured voice will haunt her readers, and the stories she tells such as the druggist who brought starlings to America because he wanted the landscape to feature every bird mentioned

    • UPC: 1796202
    • Rating: 4.5

  • The Best American History Book in the World : All the Information You Need to Know Without All the Stuff That Will Put You to Sleep

    If you only have enough money to buy one book about American history, this better be that book. Whether you're a confused student, a stressed teacher or just a regular yahoo wanting to finally understand the history of the United States, your search for knowledge needs go no further. Want to know who was the true first president of the United States? Curious about what those early Jamestowners dug their teeth into when the food ran out? Wonder why Israel and the Palestinians just can't seem to get along? It's all in here. Written and edited by top students at
    Best Speeches In American History
    If you only have enough money to buy one book about American history, this better be that book. Whether you're a confused student, a stressed teacher or just a regular yahoo wanting to finally understand the history of the United States, your search for knowledge needs go no further. Want to know who was the true first president of the United States? Curious about what those early Jamestowners dug their teeth into when the food ran out? Wonder why Israel and the Palestinians just can't seem to get along? It's all in here. Written and edited by top students at

    • UPC: 53338013

  • Vanishing America : Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of Conservation

    Vanishing America examines discourses of extinction - of species and of peoples - to identify key transitions in American environmental and racial thought between the mid nineteenth and mid twentieth centuries. By 1900 many whites had begun to see themselves as an imperiled race and increasingly identified with the nation's dwindling wildlife. Fearing they would share Indians' anticipated extinction, elite environmental pundits developed racially-charged preservationist arguments that influenced the development of scientific racism, eugenics, immigration restriction, and population control, and which still inform the modern environmental movement. Vanishing America suggests that a long history of drawing connections between environmental health
    Best Speeches In American History
    Putting a provocative new slant on the history of U.S. conservation, Vanishing America reveals how wilderness preservation efforts became entangled with racial anxieties--specifically the fear that forces of modern civilization, unless checked, would sap white America's vigor and stamina.Nineteenth-century citizens of European descent widely believed that Native Americans would eventually vanish from the continent. Indian society was thought to be tied to the wilderness, and the manifest destiny of U.S. westward expansion, coupled with industry's ever-growing hunger for natural resources, presaged the disappearance of Indian peoples. Yet, as the frontier drew to a close, some naturalists chronicling the loss of

    • UPC: 52611486
    • Rating: 3.0

  • The Reptiles of Western North America, an Account of the Species Known to Inhabit California and Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, British Columbia, Sonora and Lower California Volume V. 2

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable
    Best Speeches In American History
    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable

    • UPC: 288859672

  • The American Feral Hog : History of the Species and Bowhunting Tactics

    Did You Know That; A war was started in colonial times between Colonists and Indians that resulted in 3,600 deaths, and it was largely due to feral hogs? Feral hogs were introduced to the Americas a hundred years before the English first came to Plymouth, Mass? Wall Street might not be where it is today if it had not been for feral hogs? Crop depredation and damages caused by feral hogs in the USA are approaching a billion dollars annually? Feral hogs, while challenging and interesting to hunt, can also make a splendid addition to your barbeque party? "The most
    Best Speeches In American History
    Did You Know That; A war was started in colonial times between Colonists and Indians that resulted in 3,600 deaths, and it was largely due to feral hogs? Feral hogs were introduced to the Americas a hundred years before the English first came to Plymouth, Mass? Wall Street might not be where it is today if it had not been for feral hogs? Crop depredation and damages caused by feral hogs in the USA are approaching a billion dollars annually? Feral hogs, while challenging and interesting to hunt, can also make a splendid addition to your

    • UPC: 53031021

  • American History: The Greatest Speeches (1933-2008)

    America's major events told through the words of its leaders, since the widespread adoption of the film camera as a communication tool. Through the speeches of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Martin ...
    America,USA,President,Obama,Documentary,Speech,election,TDC,ww2,Bryce Plank,campaign,vietnam,Bill...

    Top 10 Famous Speeches

    Words have the power to inspire, motivate, and influence millions of people, which is exactly what these speeches did. Join http://www.WatchMojo.com as we count down our picks for the Top 10 Famous...
    Speech (Quotation Subject),history,politics,speeches,public speaking,important,famous,iconic,maha...

    Top 10 Most Powerful Orators in History

    Top 10 Most Powerful Orators in History Subscribe: http://goo.gl/Q2kKrD // TIMESTAMPS BELOW ----------------------- CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF WATCHMOJO WITH OUR SPECIAL EDITION MAGAZINE, LI...
    top 10,list,top 5,greatest speakers in history,powerful public speakers,famous orators,greatest s...