The Penguin Book of Historical Speeches
Author(s): Brian MacArthur
Brings together the words of many men and women who changed the world through the sheer power of their oratory. Gladstone and Disraeli, and Pitt and Fox before them, forged the politics of their age through verbal combat in the House of Commons. Abraham Lincoln transformed the way Americans interpret the Civil War and their national destiny.
Product Information
Acient times; of commoners and kings; the birth of the United States; clashes among the gladiators; the rights of man; towards civil war; the age of improvement; the age of Lincoln; the cry of Ireland; women's liberation; a century of war and revolution.
General Fields
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- : pengui
- : pengui
- : 0.368
- : 27 June 1996
- : 198mm X 129mm X 33mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Brian MacArthur
- : Paperback
- : 808.85
- : 528
- : bibliography
