Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in HistoryWilliam Safire's invaluable and immensely entertaining Lend Me Your Ears established itself instantly as a classic treasury of the greatest speeches in human history. Selected with the instincts of a great speechwriter and language maven, arranged by theme and occasion, each deftly introduced and placed in context, the more than two hundred speeches in this compilation demonstrate the enduring power of human eloquence to inspire, to uplift, and to motivate. For this expanded edition Safire has selected more than twenty new speeches by such figures as President Bill Clinton, Senator Robert Dole, General Colin Powell, Microsoft's Bill Gates, the Dalai Lama, Edward R. Murrow, Alistair Cooke, the Buddha, and the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. They prove that even in a digital age the most forceful medium of communication is still the human voice speaking directly to the mind, heart, and soul. |
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Contenido
AN INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS | 19 |
Roman Empress Theodora Refuses to Flee | 36 |
Lincoln Rededicates the Union at Gettysburg | 49 |
Underground Fighter Menachem Begin Pledges | 64 |
WAR AND REVOLUTION SPEECHES | 79 |
Queen Elizabeth Inveighs against the Spanish Armada | 85 |
An Indian Chief Pledges Help | 91 |
Richard Price an English Cleric Hails the Revolutions | 97 |
Evangelist Billy Sunday Preaches a Revival Sermon | 475 |
Theologian Karl Barth Preaches Deliverance by Faith | 482 |
President Ronald Reagan Inveighs against the Sinfulness | 492 |
The Exiled Dalai Lama Espouses a Philosophy of Compassion | 503 |
INSPIRATIONAL SPEECHES | 509 |
Mark Twain Reveals Stage Fright | 519 |
Rockefeller Jr Sets Forth His Familys Creed | 525 |
Reverend Martin Luther King Jr Ennobles | 531 |
Garibaldi Prepares Italys Guerrillas for Battle | 104 |
Chief Joseph Surrenders | 111 |
Lenin Defends Proletarian Dictatorship | 121 |
Hitler Declares Germanys Intentions | 127 |
Winston Churchill Braces Britons to Their Task | 134 |
President Franklin D Roosevelt Asks Congress to Declare | 141 |
Senator Eugene McCarthy Crystallizes Dissent | 147 |
Israels Yitzhak Rabin Shakes Hands with His Lifelong Enemy | 155 |
Mark Antony Urges Mourners to Vengeance over the Body | 161 |
Edmund Burke Laments the Death of Marie Antoinette | 167 |
Senator George Graham Vest Offers a Tribute to the Dog | 174 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson Commemorates the Centennial | 176 |
Jane Addams Praises George Washington | 191 |
George Bernard Shaw Salutes His Friend Albert Einstein | 206 |
President Richard M Nixon Defines Politician | 219 |
President Boris Yeltsin of Russia Eulogizes Victims | 232 |
A Youthful William Pitt the Elder Debates the Merits of Age | 248 |
William Pitt the Younger and Charles Fox Disagree | 251 |
Senator John C Calhoun Fights the Expunging of His Criticism | 275 |
Henry Cabot Lodge Speaks on the League of Nations | 293 |
Senators Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen Clash | 311 |
Martin Luther Addresses the Diet of Worms | 324 |
Novelist Emile Zola Turns His Libel Defense into | 337 |
Defense Lawyer Clarence Darrow Answers | 350 |
Soviet Dissident Anatoly Shcharansky Defies His Judges | 364 |
and Later His Regicide Speak from the Scaffold | 373 |
Rebel Richard Rumbold on the Gallows Attacks | 379 |
President George Washington Delivers His Farewell | 385 |
John Brown Has a Few Words to Say about | 394 |
General Douglas MacArthur Moves Congress with | 401 |
President Dwight D Eisenhower Takes His Leave with | 407 |
Speaker of the House James Wright Resigns | 419 |
The Buddha Urges a Turning Away from Craving in | 427 |
Saint Francis Preaches to the Birds | 435 |
John Calvin Preaches on Suffering Persecution | 446 |
Methodist John Wesley Asserts Free Grace to Deny | 452 |
Chief Red Jacket Rejects a Change of Religion | 461 |
Lincoln in His Second Inaugural Seeks to Heal | 469 |
President William Jefferson Clinton Urges Memphis Churchgoers | 538 |
LECTURES | 545 |
First Female Member of Parliament Lady Astor Expounds on Women | 563 |
Secretary of State Dean Acheson Explains Tensions | 576 |
Presidential Aide Jack Valenti Recalls the Lessons Learned at the Center | 591 |
Lord Byron Puts Poetic Passion into His Defense | 614 |
Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison Admits | 628 |
Susan B Anthony Argues for Womens Rights | 636 |
Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch Offers Americas First Plan to Control | 652 |
Exhorts AfroAmericans to Confront | 668 |
Astronomer Carl Sagan Contemplates the Potential Selfdestruction of | 681 |
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan Argues That Male Domination | 700 |
Broadcaster Edward R Murrow Despairs of the Future of | 713 |
FCCs Newton Minow Excoriates Broadcasters for Failing to Serve | 730 |
Historian Daniel J Boorstin Examines the Coverage of Dissent | 739 |
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger of the New York Times Discusses Business | 754 |
Author Salman Rushdie Cries Out from a LifeTrapped inside | 769 |
John Winthrop Defines the Mission of Government Officials | 788 |
HistorianLegislator Thomas Macaulay Calls on Parliament | 805 |
Karl Marx Calls for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat | 819 |
British Conservative Benjamin Disraeli Speaks | 835 |
Democratic Candidate William Jennings Bryan Delivers His Cross | 849 |
President Franklin D Roosevelts First Inaugural Instills Confidence | 858 |
Judge Noah Sweat of Mississippi Shows How to Straddle a Fence with | 878 |
President John F Kennedy in His Inaugural Takes Up the Torch for | 893 |
President Richard M Nixon Rallies the Silent Majority to Support | 907 |
Representative Barbara Jordan Makes the Constitutional Case for | 920 |
Senator Edward M Kennedy Exhorts Fellow Democrats to Hold Fast | 933 |
Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick Blasts the San Francisco | 947 |
Henry Kissinger Warns against the Reemergence of Isolationism | 962 |
President Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union Acknowledges | 978 |
President Woodrow Wilson Calls the Midshipmen | 989 |
Humorist Art Buchwald Speaks to Law Graduates | 1002 |
Governor Mario Cuomo Speaks over the Heads of the Graduates | 1018 |
General Colin Powell Urges AfricanAmerican Students to Reject Racial | 1031 |
PERMISSIONS | 1045 |
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