Speeches that changed the world : the words and stories of the moments that made history
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Speeches that changed the world : the words and stories of the moments that made history
Quercus, 2008
- : hbk
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"First published in 2005" -- T.p. verso
Includes index
"The stories and transcripts of the moments that made history" -- Jacket
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Description
Over 50 momentous and thought-provoking speeches from a wide range of historical eras and nations. Complete with biographies of each speaker, the history of why each speech was significant and what happened as a result, this is a fascinating history of the world told through the speeches that shaped it.
Table of Contents
Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, St Francis of Assisi, Elizabeth I, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Mahatma Gandhi, Lenin, Woodrow Wilson, Clarence Darrow, Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler(2), Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill(3), Vyacheslav Molotov, Franklin D. Roosevelt(2), Charles de Gaulle, General George S. Patton, Emperor Hirohito, Jawaharlal Nehru, J Robert Oppenheimer, General Douglas McArthur, Nelson Mandela(2), Eamon de Valera, John F. Kennedy(2), Martin Luther King(2), Malcolm X, Shirley Chisholm, Pierre Trudeau, Golda Meir, Richard M Nixon, Indira Gandhi, Chaim Herzog, Mother Teresa, Pope John Paul II, Ronald Regan, Mikhail Gorbachev, F. W. de Klerk, Vaclav Havel, Elie Wiesel, George W. Bush
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