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THE PENGUIN BOOK OF MODERN SPEECHES - BRIAN MAC...

This definitive collection gathers the most significant speeches of the modern era  from
Theodore Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. to Ronald Reagan and Michelle Obama Defined by
waves of idealism and doubt  progress and destruction  the twentieth century and the first
decades of the twenty-first have seen the best and worst of humanity in measures previously
unimaginable. Underpinning the rise of radio  television  and the internet  the spoken word has
proven ever more crucial in stirring the hearts and minds of millions around the world. In
these pages  Emmeline Pankhurst agitates for the right to vote  Adolf Hitler rises to power 
Fidel Castro sparks a revolution  John F. Kennedy calls Americans to action  Betty Friedan
rallies for equality  and Barack Obama contemplates the meaning of America. The speeches
contained in The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches  some of the most extraordinary and memorable
of the modern age  have established and shaped how we understand ourselves and our place in the
world around us.

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