Contributor
Widmer, Edward L.
Imprint:New York : Library of America, 2011.
Descriptionxvi, 403 p. ; 20 cm.
Note:Speech in the Virginia Convention / Patrick Henry -- Speech to officers of the Continental Army / George Washington -- Speech at the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention / Benjamin Franklin -- Eulogy on George Washington / Henry Lee -- First inaugural address / Thomas Jefferson -- Address at the laying of the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill monument / Daniel Webster -- Antislavery speech at Pennsylvania Hall / Angelina Grimke Weld -- Speech to Woman's Rights Convention / Sojourner Truth -- What to the slave is the 4th of July? / Frederick Douglass -- "House divided" speech / Abraham Lincoln -- Speech to the court / John Brown -- Address at Cooper institute / Abraham Lincoln -- First inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- Address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania / Abraham Lincoln -- Second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- Speech in Congress on the civil rights bill / Robert Brown Elliott -- Reply to General Howard / Chief Joseph -- Address at the dedication of the Statue of Liberty / Grover Cleveland -- The solitude of self / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Lynch law in all its phases / Ida B. Wells -- Speech to the Democratic National Convention / William Jennings Bryant -- The strenuous life / Theodore Roosevelt -- Address to Congress on war with Germany / Woodrow Wilson -- First inaugural address / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Address to Congress on war with Japan / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Fireside chat on progress of the war / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Speech to the Third Army troops / George S. Patton -- Address to the Allied Expeditionary Forces / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Nobel Prize address / William Faulkner -- Speech to the greater Houston Ministerial Association / John F. Kennedy -- Farewell address / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Inaugural address / John F. Kennedy -- Address at American University / John F. Kennedy -- Speech at the Rudolph Wilde Platz / John F. Kennedy -- Address to the March on Washington / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Nobel prize address / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Address to Congress on voting rights / Lyndon B. Johnson -- Address at the University of Cape Town / Robert F. Kennedy -- Speech at Mason Temple / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Remarks on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Robert F. Kennedy -- Statement to the House Judiciary Committee / Barbara Jordan -- Address to members of Parliament / Ronald Reagan -- Address to the nation on the Challenger disaster / Ronald Reagan -- Speech at the Brandenburg Gate / Ronald Reagan -- Speech at Mason Temple / William J. Clinton -- Remarks on the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance service / George W. Bush -- A more perfect union / Barack Obama.
Bibliography Note:Includes index.
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