Chambers classic speeches [electronic resource]
2012
Book
Abstract: The content of this title is extracted from "Chambers Book of Speeches", a major new anthology bringing together a diverse selection of eloquent, powerful, witty and passionate speeches, given by politicians, monarchs, rebels and intellectuals from around the world. Insightful biographical information is provided for each entry, along with a short introduction to the historical context and purpose of each speech.
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Imprint:
Edinburgh [Scotland] : Chambers Harrap, 2006 (London : xrefer Ltd. [generator]) (Boston, Mass. : Credo Reference, 2012.)
Collation:
1 online resource (224 entries) : 1 image, digital files.
Notes:
Extracted from: Chambers Book of Speeches. Edinburgh : Chambers Harrap, 2006.Description based on title screen (viewed 29 June 2012).
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Contents:
Samuel Adams -- Jane Addams -- Arthur Balfour -- Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- John Bright -- John Brown -- W J Bryan -- Edmund Burke -- George W Bush -- John C Calhoun -- George Canning -- Roger Casement -- Neville Chamberlain -- Charles I -- Bill Clinton -- Robert Clive -- Oliver Cromwell -- Eugene V Debs -- Camille Desmoulins -- Benjamin Disraeli -- Frederick Douglass -- Jonathan Edwards -- Dwight D Eisenhower -- Elizabeth I -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Robert Emmet -- Charles James Fox -- St Francis of Assisi -- Benjamin Franklin -- Giuseppe Garibaldi -- Dick Gephardt -- William Gladstone -- Emma Goldman -- Henry Grattan -- Angelina Grimké -- Keir Hardie -- Patrick Henry -- Victor Hugo -- Edward Irving -- Andrew Jackson -- James VI and I -- Thomas Jefferson -- Jesus of Nazareth -- Lyndon B Johnson -- Samuel Johnson -- Chief Joseph -- John F Kennedy -- Robert F Kennedy -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- Abraham Lincoln -- Martin Luther -- Thomas Macaulay -- John Maclean -- Karl Marx -- James Maxton -- John Stuart Mill -- Honoré de Mirabeau -- The Marquess of Montrose -- Thomas More -- John Henry Newman -- Richard M Nixon -- Daniel O'Connell -- Emmeline Pankhurst -- Charles Stewart Parnell -- St Patrick -- Pd̀raig Pearse -- Pericles -- William Pitt the Elder -- Ronald Reagan -- Chief Red Jacket -- Maximilien Robespierre -- Franklin D Roosevelt -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Chief Seattle -- Margaret Chase Smith -- Joseph Stalin -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Charles Sumner -- Sun Yat-sen -- Jonathan Swift -- Harry S Truman -- Sojourner Truth -- Bartolomeo Vanzetti -- George G Vest -- William Wallace -- Robert Walpole -- Booker T Washington -- George Washington -- The Duke of Wellington -- John Wesley -- William Wilberforce -- Oscar Wilde -- Woodrow Wilson -- John Winthrop -- Frances Wright.
Access restrictions:
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
ISBN:
9781849721820 (online)
Dewey class:
808.85
LC class:
PN6122
Language:
English
BRN:
502722
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