Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History

Author(s): William Safire

Speeches and Quotes

Covering speeches from Demosthenes to George W. Bush, this third edition has a new preface on what makes a speech "great". It includes the words of Oliver Cromwell to the "Rump Parliament", Tony Blair exhorting his party to fight terrorism and Alistair Cooke sending a Christmas "Letter from America". A new section incorporates speeches that were never delivered: what Kennedy was to say in Dallas and what Safire wrote for Nixon if the first moon landing met with disaster.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780393059311
  • : W W Norton & Company
  • : *Norton agency titles
  • : 1.55
  • : January 2010
  • : 244mm X 166mm X 54mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Hardback
  • : William Safire