Greatest American Speeches : Deluxe Hardcover Edition

Speeches change what a country believes about itself, and this hardcover collection gathers the American addresses that did exactly that. Patrick Henry's demand for liberty and Franklin D. Roosevelt's steadying wartime words sit among them. Reading the texts rather than hearing them makes the construction visible: how an argument is staged, where repetition does the work, when a speaker chooses the plainest possible sentence. That makes the volume useful for anyone who writes or delivers speeches, as well as for readers following the history of American democracy through its turning points. What the reading experience is like: • Full speech texts rather than brief extracts • Addresses spanning revolution, reform and wartime • Reference material for debaters and public speakers • Deluxe hardcover suited to long-term shelving A useful volume for students of history and rhetoric, debate club members and readers of political non-fiction, available from Boipoka.