Contemporary forum ; American speeches on twentieth-century issues, edited by Ernest J. Wrage [and] Barnet Baskerville.

Author: Wrage, Ernest J. ed.

Imprint:New York : Harper, [1962]

Description376 p. ; 25 cm.

Note:Pt.1.NEW FREEDOMS: The Progressive Era: The issue / Eugene Victor Debs. - The new nationalism / Theodore Roosevelt. - First inaugural address / Woodrow Wilson. - Business and politics / Elihu Root. -- The League of Nations: In opposition to the proposed League of Nations / Henry Cabot Lodge. - In support of the proposed League of Nations / Woodrow Wilson. -- Modernism vs. fundamentalism in religion: Shall the fundamentalists win? / Harry Emerson Fosdick. - Moses vs. Darwin / William Jennings Bryan. - Christianity vs. modern liberalism / John Gresham Machen. -- Pt.2.THE GREAT DIVIDE: Polemics of the New Deal Era: Address to the Commonwealth Club / Franklin Delano Roosevelt. - First inaugural address / Franklin Delano Roosevelt. - Fireside chat on the accomplishments of the New Deal / Franklin Delano Roosevelt. - Come back to your father's house / Alfred Emanuel Smith. - Jacob's voice but Esau's hands / Joseph Taylor Robinson. - Is the New Deal socialism? Norman Mattoon Thomas. - A holy crusade for liberty / Herbert Clark Hoover. -- Higher Education and Social Change: Education and new social ideals / John Dewey. - Education and social improvement / Robert Maynard Hutchins. - Fire always makes room for itself / William H. Cowley. -- Isolationism Vs. One World: The arsenal of democracy / Franklin Delano Roosevelt. - America's present emergency / Burton Kendall Wheeler. - Fourth inaugural address / Franklin Delano Roosevelt. -- Pt.3.GRAVE NEW WORLD: The Cold War Era: There are no Gibraltars / Adlai Ewing Stevenson. - Our misguided foreign policy / Robert Alphonso Taft. - The great betrayal / Joseph Raymond McCarthy. - Colossal innocence in the United States Senate / Ralph E. Flanders. - Valedictory / Harry S. Truman. - The price of peace / Dwight David Eisenhower. - Inaugural address / John Fitzgerald Kennedy. -- To Secure These Rights: Segregation and the South / Thomas Pickens Brady. - Deep South crisis / Roy Wilkins. -- Our Unfinished Business: The political relevance of moral principle / Adlai Ewing Stevenson.

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