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Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History
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by:
Safire, William
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Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Published: April 1, 1997
ISBN: 0393040054
Format:Hardcover
Pages:1055
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Book Description
From Publishers Weekly
The third edition of this comprehensive collection of oratory through the ages is appropriately edited by former presidential speechwriter Safire-a man who knows firsthand the importance of putting together the right words for
the right moment. But many readers will no doubt skip his prefatory lesson in rhetoric and go right to the speeches themselves. The selections range widely through Western history, from Pericles's funeral oration to fallen Greek soldiers in the
Peloponnesian War, to Tony Blair "exhorting his party to fight terrorism." History has yet to pass judgment on the greatness of the most recent speeches included here, but Safire shows a broad-minded, bipartisan inclusiveness in collecting the words of
Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, history's losers (Sen. Robert Taft opposing war crimes trials after WWII) as well as its victors. And several of the speeches he includes deal with politics only indirectly: such as Louis Pasteur's
paean to scientific education, the Dalai Lama's sermon on the "Philosophy of Compassion" and Salman Rushdie's description of a life "Trapped inside a Metaphor." This is an invaluable reference for writers and speakers, students of history and those who
simply appreciate great oratory.
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Product Description:
The definitive compendium of classic oratory--a book for and of the ages now made even richer
and more contemporary. William 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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