The Penguin Book of Historical Speeches

by Brian MacArthur

Book Overview

From Moses to Nelson Mandella, speeches have helped both change the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped. A great orator, however, has to have the right words and the right message to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670848557
• ISBN13: 9780670848553
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.4" x 1.6" x 6.2"

Customer Reviews

The Speeches Speak for Themselves

Aren't the speeches in and of themselves, enough to inspire? Why would we need someone else's exhortation about the speeches themselves. They are their own best witnesses of the greatness of each of them. Whether we have a great commentary on them or a horrible one, or none at all, makes no difference to me personally. If I watch a film of a presidential speech, I usually do not stay tuned to have a news commentator tell me what I just heard :) So, these speeches are great in and of themselves, and need no commentary at all, whether good, bad or indifferent. Do we watch a baseball game in its entirety and then immediately switch to a sports channel to find out from THEM how the game went???? We just saw the game!