Speeches that changed the world : the stories and transcripts of the moments that made history
Montefiore, Sebag, 1965-200808UU
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Includes over 50 momentous and thought-provoking speeches from a wide range of historical eras and nations. This book provides the biographies of various speakers, the history of why each speech was significant and what happened as a result. This book includes over 50 momentous and thought-provoking speeches from a wide range of historical eras and nations. Complete with biographies of each speaker, the history of why each speech was significant and what happened as a result, this is a fascinating history of the world told through the speeches that shaped it.
Main title:
Speeches that changed the world : the stories and transcripts of the moments that made history / Simon Sebag Montefiore.
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Imprint:
Quercus : [distributor] TBS The Book Service Ltd : [distributor] Alliance Distribution Services Pty Ltd : [distributor] United Book Distributors : [distributor] Book Promotions, 2008.
Collation:
224 p. : ill., 50 black and white ; 22x19 cm.
Notes:
Hardback.
Contents:
Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, St Francis of Assisi, Elizabeth I, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln, Emmeline Pankhurst, Marie Curie, Mahatma Gandhi, Lenin, Woodrow Wilson, Clarence Darrow, Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler(2), Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill(3), Vyacheslav Molotov, Franklin D. Roosevelt(2), Charles de Gaulle, General George S. Patton, Emperor Hirohito, Jawaharlal Nehru, J Robert Oppenheimer, General Douglas McArthur, Nelson Mandela(2), Eamon de Valera, John F. Kennedy(2), Martin Luther King(2), Malcolm X, Shirley Chisholm, Pierre Trudeau, Golda Meir, Richard M Nixon, Indira Gandhi, Chaim Herzog, Mother Teresa, Pope John Paul II, Ronald Regan, Mikhail Gorbachev, F. W. de Klerk, Vaclav Havel, Elie Wiesel, George W. Bush.
Biography/History:
Simon Sebag Montefiore is the award-winning author of Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar. The Cambridge Editorial Partnership has produced a multitude of academic and educational titles in their ten-year history. Their reference team has researched and transcribed these speeches from original source material.
ISBN:
9781847246059 (hbk)1847246052 (hbk)
Dewey class:
808.85935
Language:
English
BRN:
3726958
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