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Abstract: The content of this title is extracted from "Chambers Book of Speeches", a major new anthology bringing together a diverse selection of eloquent, powerful, witty and passionate speeches, given by politicians, monarchs, rebels and intellectuals from around the world. Insightful biographical information is provided for each entry, along with a short introduction to the historical context and purpose of each speech.

Table of Contents:

• Samuel Adams
• Jane Addams
• Arthur Balfour
• Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
• Napoleon Bonaparte
• John Bright
• John Brown
• W J Bryan
• Edmund Burke
• George W Bush
• John C Calhoun
• George Canning
• Roger Casement
• Neville Chamberlain
• Charles I
• Bill Clinton
• Robert Clive
• Oliver Cromwell
• Eugene V Debs
• Camille Desmoulins

• Benjamin Disraeli
• Frederick Douglass
• Jonathan Edwards
• Dwight D Eisenhower
• Elizabeth I
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Robert Emmet
• Charles James Fox
• St Francis of Assisi
• Benjamin Franklin
• Giuseppe Garibaldi
• Dick Gephardt
• William Gladstone
• Emma Goldman
• Henry Grattan
• Angelina Grimké
• Keir Hardie
• Patrick Henry
• Victor Hugo
• Edward Irving
• Andrew Jackson
• James VI and I
• Thomas Jefferson
• Jesus of Nazareth
• Lyndon B Johnson
• Samuel Johnson
• Chief Joseph
• John F Kennedy
• Robert F Kennedy
• Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
• Abraham Lincoln
• Martin Luther
• Thomas Macaulay
• John Maclean
• Karl Marx
• James Maxton
• John Stuart Mill
• Honoré de Mirabeau
• The Marquess of Montrose
• Thomas More
• John Henry Newman
• Richard M Nixon
• Daniel O'Connell
• Emmeline Pankhurst
• Charles Stewart Parnell
• St Patrick
• P̀draig Pearse
• Pericles
• William Pitt the Elder
• Ronald Reagan
• Chief Red Jacket
• Maximilien Robespierre
• Franklin D Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Chief Seattle
• Margaret Chase Smith
• Joseph Stalin
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Charles Sumner
• Sun Yat-sen
• Jonathan Swift
• Harry S Truman
• Sojourner Truth
• Bartolomeo Vanzetti
• George G Vest
• William Wallace
• Robert Walpole
• Booker T Washington
• George Washington
• The Duke of Wellington
• John Wesley
• William Wilberforce
• Oscar Wilde
• Woodrow Wilson
• John Winthrop
• Frances Wright.

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Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Speeches, addresses, etc.

General Notes:

Extracted from: Chambers Book of Speeches. Edinburgh : Chambers Harrap, 2006.
Description based on title screen (viewed 29 June 2012).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 entries) : 1 image.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PN6122 .C43 2006eb

ISBNs:

9781849721820 (online)

OCLC Numbers:

941857665

Other Control Numbers:

slc00229572 (source: CaBNVSL)
chambspeeches (source: Credo)
[Unknown Type]: Credo00000435