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American Speeches: Political Oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton by Ted Widmer

skitch41's review

challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

lauraellis's review

4.0

This collection provides a good look at the issues that concerned people between the Civil War and the end of the Cold War. And although the speeches are restricted to political oratory, the editor defines this broadly, because not all the speakers are politicians. Included in this collection is a particularly moving speech by Ida B. Wells on lynching, an earthy speech by General Patton given to the troops as they move to invade Normandy in WWII, the speech MLK gave the night before his assassination (I may not get there with you . . . .), and Bill Clinton's speech honoring the Little Rock Nine closes out the collection. I recommend this to anyone interested in American History.