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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