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AmericanHeritage book of great American speeches for young people
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- ISBN: 0471389420 (acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 9780471389422 (acid-free paper)
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Physical Description:
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xii, 292 p. : ill ; 23 cm. - Publisher: New York : Wiley, c2001.
Contents / Notes
| General Note: | Includes indexes. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | To Captain John Smith (1609) / Powhatan 5 -- To De la Barre, Governor of Canada (1684) / Big Mouth 7 -- In Defense of John Peter Zenger and the Freedom of the Press (1735) / Andrew Hamilton 9 -- "We Will Make Men of Them" (1744) / Canasatego 12 -- On the Fourth Anniversary of the Boston Massacre (1774) / John Hancock 14 -- To Lord Dunmore (1774) / Logan 16 -- "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" (1775) / Patrick Henry 17 -- "We Have Ever Been True Friends" (1775) / Solomon 20 -- To the Continental Congress (1776) / Samuel Adams 22 -- To the Constitutional Convention (1787) / Benjamin Franklin 25 -- To the Massachusetts Convention (1788) / Jonathan Smith 28 -- "Observe Good Faith and Justice towards All Nations" (1796) / George Washington 31 -- First Inaugural Address (1801) / Thomas Jefferson 34 -- "We Never Quarrel about Religion" (1805) / Red Jacket 36 -- "Sleep Not Longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws" (1811) / Tecumseh 39 -- Welcome to Lafayette (1824) / Pushmataha 42 -- Bunker Hill Oration (1825) / Daniel Webster 43 -- "Farewell to Black Hawk" (1832) / Black Hawk 46 -- "Remember the Alamo!" (1836) / Sam Houston 49 -- In Defense of a Free Press (1837) / Elijah Lovejoy 51 -- "What Has the North to Do with Slavery?" (1838) / Angelina Grimke 53 -- The Call to Rebellion (1843) / Henry Highland Garnet 56 -- "My Grave Shall Be Made in Free Soil" (1846) / Lewis Richardson 58 -- Against War with Mexico (1847) / Thomas Corwin 61 -- "If I Had a Country, I Should Be a Patriot" (1847) / Frederick Douglass 64 -- A Call for a Measure of Compromise (1850) / Henry Clay 67 -- "If You Have Woman's Rights, Give Them to Her" (1851) / Sojourner Truth 69 -- "What to the American Slave Is Your Fourth of July?" (1852) / Frederick Douglass 71 -- On the Fugitive Slave Law (1854) / Ralph Waldo Emerson 73 -- "We Will Dwell Apart and in Peace" (1854) / Seattle 76 -- "A Disappointed Woman" (1855) / Lucy Stone 79 -- "A House Divided" (1858) / Abraham Lincoln 81 -- Sixth Lincoln-Douglas Debate (1858) / Stephen Douglas 83 -- To the Court after Sentencing (1859) / John Brown 85 -- On the Death of John Brown (1859) / William Lloyd Garrison 87 -- Farewell to the Senate (1861) / Jefferson Davis 89 -- The Gettysburg Address (1863) / Abraham Lincoln 91 -- "With Malice toward None, with Charity for All" (1865) / Abraham Lincoln 93 -- "I Hold That I Am a Member of This Body" (1868) / Henry M. Turner 95 -- Eulogy on the Dog (1870) / George Graham Vest 97 -- "We Will Remain at Peace with Your People Forever" (1872) / Cochise 99 -- "Are Women Persons?" (1873) / Susan B. Anthony 101 -- "I Will Fight No More Forever" (1877) / Chief Joseph 104 -- "The Solitude of Self" (1892) / Elizabeth Cady Stanton 106 -- "A Cross of Gold" (1896) / William Jennings Bryan 109 -- "Acres of Diamonds" (late 1890s) / Russell Conwell 112 -- To the Machine Tenders Union (1898) / Harry Gladstone 116 -- To the United Mine Workers of America (1901) / Mother Jones 117 -- "Freeing the Children from Toil" (1905) / Florence Kelley 120 -- "In Behalf of Simplified Spelling" (1906) / Mark Twain 122 -- Citizenship in a Republic (1910) / Theodore Roosevelt 125 -- On the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire (1911) / Rose Schneiderman 127 -- The Coatesville Address (1912) / John Jay Chapman 129 -- Tribute to Lincoln (1914) / Stephen S. Wise 133 -- "An Oath of Allegiance to a Great Ideal" (1915) / Woodrow Wilson 135 -- The Fundamental Principle of a Republic (1915) / Anna Howard Shaw 137 -- "The World Must Be Made Safe for Democracy" (1917) / Woodrow Wilson 140 -- "First Make Democracy Safe in America" (1917) / Emma Goldman 143 -- "While There Is a Lower Class, I Am in It" (1918) / Eugene V. Debs 146 -- In Defense of Leopold and Loeb (1924) / Clarence Darrow 149 -- "Anything Un-American Cannot Live in the Sunlight" (1928) / Alfred E. Smith 153 -- "The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself" (1933) / Franklin D. Roosevelt 155 -- "The Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth" (1939) / Lou Gehrig 158 -- "What Constitutes an American?" (1941) / Harold Ickes 160 -- "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy" (1941) / Franklin D. Roosevelt 162 -- "The Spirit of Liberty" (1944) / Learned Hand 165 -- "The Eyes of the World Are upon You" (1944) / Dwight D. Eisenhower 167 -- The Fala Address (1944) / Franklin D. Roosevelt 169 -- "People of the Philippines: I Have Returned" (1944) / Douglas MacArthur 171 -- Eulogy at the Marine Corps Cemetery (1945) / Roland Gittelsohn 173 -- To the United Nations (1947) / Albert Einstein 176 -- "The Four Horsemen of Calumny" (1950) / Margaret Chase Smith 179 -- "I Decline to Accept the End of Man" (1950) / William Faulkner 182 -- Forbidden to Speak at Cardozo High School Graduation (1951) / Pearl Buck 184 -- "Let My People Go" (1952) / Charlotta Bass 187 -- The Checkers Speech (1952) / Richard Nixon 190 -- "There Comes a Time When People Get Tired" (1955) / Martin Luther King Jr. 192 -- "On the Blacklist All Our Lives" (1957) / Langston Hughes 194 -- "The Clock Will Not Be Turned Back" (1957) / Roy Wilkins 197 -- "Ask What You Can Do for Your Country" (1961) / John F. Kennedy 200 -- "Duty, Honor, Country" (1962) / Douglas MacArthur 204 -- "Let Them Come to Berlin" (1963) / John F. Kennedy 206 -- "I Have a Dream" (1963) / Martin Luther King Jr. 208 -- "Four Little Girls Were Killed" (1963) / Charles B. Morgan Jr. 211 -- Eulogy for President John F. Kennedy (1963) / Earl Warren 214 -- "The Ballot or the Bullet" (1964) / Malcolm X 216 -- "Extremism in the Defense of Liberty Is No Vice" (1964) / Barry Goldwater 220 -- "History Has Not Ended" (1964) / Mario Savio 223 -- "We Shall Overcome" (1965) / Lyndon Baines Johnson 225 -- To the United Nations (1965) / Adlai Stevenson 229 -- "The Anvil of Individual Conscience" (1967) / William Sloane Coffin Jr. 231 -- "God Help Us to Be Men!" (1968) / Cesar Chavez 234 -- "The Focus Is Vietnam" (1968) / J. William Fulbright 236 -- "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968) / Martin Luther King Jr. 239 -- On the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (1968) / Robert F. Kennedy 242 -- "The Business of America Is War" (1969) / Shirley Chisholm 245 -- On the 350th Anniversary of Plymouth (1970) / Frank James 248 -- "The Price of Liberty to Speak the Truth" (1971) / Archibald Cox 251 -- "My Faith in the Constitution Is Whole" (1974) / Barbara Jordan 253 -- "I Shall Resign the Presidency" (1974) / Richard Nixon 256 -- "I Must 'Raise a Beef' about This Bill" (1975) / Silvio Conte 258 -- Commencement Address at Lake Forest College (1977) / Dr. Seuss 260 -- At the Liberators Conference (1981) / Esther Cohen 261 -- "Look Around and See Only Friends" (1983) / Samantha Smith 263 -- To the Nation on the Challenger Disaster (1986) / Ronald Reagan 266 -- On the Bicentennial of the Constitution (1987) / Thurgood Marshall 268 -- "Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!" (1987) / Ronald Reagan 271 -- To the Democratic National Convention (1988) / Jesse Jackson 274 -- To the 442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team (1993) / Daniel Inouye 276 -- To His Fans (1995) / Cal Ripken Jr. 279 -- "They Died for That Which Can Never Burn" (2000) / Charles S. Robb 281 -- Appendix To the Young Speaker 285. |
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