In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century - Brossura

Torricelli, Senator Robert Robert

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ISBN 10: 0743410521 ISBN 13: 9780743410526

Casa editrice: Washington Square Press, 2000

Riassunto

Teddy Roosevelt, Rachel Carson, and Malcolm X are just a sampling of the presidents, prisoners, scoundrels, scientists, generals, humorists, artists, and demagogues whose oratory are represented in this wide-ranging collection of the nation's most memorable speeches. Reprint.

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Recensione:

Stephen Ambrose Senator Torricelli's selection of great american speeches...makes me...glad that we live in America.

Robert Shrum presidential speechwriter In Our Own Words is history at its best, because it is neither filtered nor synthesized but is presented in the words of the speakers themselves

Library Journal Uniquely textured....There is no comparable one-volume collection of twentieth-century commentary that evokes such a diversity of viewpoints.

New York Post A fine snapshot....All of the great moral and social debates can be found here.

Charlie Rose Just amazing....It really is a history of our time.

L'autore:

Senator Robert Torricelli (D-NJ), is a member of the Governmental Affairs, Judiciary, Rules, and Foreign Relations committees. He writes all of his own speeches.

Andrew Carroll is the editor of the bestselling Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters and the founder of the Legacy Project, a national effort to seek out and preserve historically significant correspondence by Americans from all walks of life.

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• Editore: Washington Square Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0743410521
• ISBN 13: 9780743410526
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480