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Writer, broadcaster, and wit Gyles Brandreth has completely revised
Ned Sherrin's classic collection of wisecracks, one-liners, and
anecdotes. With over 1,000 new quotations from all media, it's easy
to find hilarious quotes on subjects ranging from Argument to
Diets, from Computers to The Weather. Add sparkle to your speeches
and presentations, or just enjoy a good laugh in company with Oscar
Wilde, Mark Twain, Joan Rivers, Kathy Lette, Frankie Boyle, and
friends. 'Now we have the World Wide Web (the only thing I know of
whose shortened form-www-takes three times longer to say than what
it's short for)' Douglas Adams 'Not only is there no God, but try
getting a plumber on weekends' Woody Allen 'Never go to bed mad.
Stay up and fight' Phyllis Diller 'Having a baby is like getting a
tattoo on your face. You really need to be certain it's what you
want before you commit' Elizabeth Gilbert 'The trouble with having
an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it' Terry Pratchett 'Retreat, hell!
We're only attacking in another direction' American general Oliver
P. Smith
Throughout history, great speeches have produced great change. From
inciting violence and asserting control to restoring peace and
securing freedom, nothing has the raw emotional power of a speech
delivered at the right moment, in the right place, with the right
content, and the right delivery. 50 Speeches That Made The Modern
World is a celebration of the most influential and
thought-provoking speeches that have shaped the world we live in.
With comprehensive, chronological coverage of speeches from the
20th and 21st centuries, taken from all corners of the globe, it
covers Emmeline Pankhurst's patiently reasoned condemnation of
men's failure to improve ordinary women's lives in 1908 through
speeches by Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion,
Albert Einstein, Fidel Castro, Nikita Khrushchev, Ernesto 'Che'
Guevara, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Benazir
Bhutto, Osama Bin Laden and Aung San Suu Kyi, right up to the most
compelling oratory surrounding the 2016 US Presidential elections.
Through the rallying propaganda speeches during World War II to the
cautious rhetoric of the Cold War period, through challenging the
status quo on issues of race, gender and politics to public
addresses to the masses on the issues of AIDS and terrorism,
through apologies, complaints, warmongering, scaremongering and
passionate pleas, this book delivers the most important speeches of
the modern era and why they still remain so significant. Each
speech has an introduction explaining its setting, importance and
impact as well as marginal notes filling in any background
information.
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