Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History
- ISBN-10
- 0393059316
- ISBN-13
- 9780393059311
- Series
- Lend Me Your Ears
- Category
- Reference
- Pages
- 1168
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- William Safire
Description
A compendium of more than two hundred classic and modern speeches includes Orson Welles eulogizing Darryl F. Zanuck, George Patton exhorting his D-Day troops, King Edward VIII abdicating his throne, and the never-delivered speech John F. Kennedy was sched
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- 2017-06-28
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