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Lincoln at Gettysburg: the words that remade America

by Wills, Garry

fromTouchstone book

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The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom" in the space of a mere 272 words. His entire life and previous…

Valorizing the Barbarians: enemy speeches in Roman historiography

by Adler, Eric

fromAshley and Peter Larkin series in Greek and Roman culture

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With the growth of postcolonial theory in recent decades, scholarly views of Roman imperialism and colonialism have been evolving and shifting. In this book Eric Adler explores the degree to which ancient historians of Rome were capable of valorizing foreigners and presenting cr…

Charge!: history's greatest military speeches

by Israel, Steve

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A comprehensive collection of great military speeches in history including Winston Churchill's rallying his nation to victory and Ronald Reagan's challenge to Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

Charge!: history's greatest military speeches

by Israel, Steve

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One of the leading voices on national security issues in the U.S. Congress demonstrates how words have been sharp and powerful weapons of victory in this compilation of great military speeches that helped turn the tide of history. Among the dozens of inspirational speeches featu…

Fighting words: the politics of hateful speech

by Mazal Holocaust Collection, Marcus, Laurence R.

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This intriguing book reflects on the conditions on college campuses that give rise to words and acts of hate, on the consequences of these episodes, and on strategies intended to improve intergroup harmony. Using the speech given by Nation of Islam spokesperson Khalid Abdul Muha…

Religious discourse in Attic oratory and politics

by Serafim, Andreas

fromRoutledge monographs in classical studies

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"The book offers a critical investigation of a wide range of features of religious discourse in the transmitted forensic, symbouleutic and epideictic orations of the Ten Attic Orators, a body of 151 speeches which represents the mature flourishing of the ancient art of public sp…

The four freedoms: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the evolution of an Ame…

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"The specter of global war loomed large in President Franklin Roosevelt's mind as he prepared to present his 1941 State of the Union address. He believed the United States had a role to play in the battle against Nazi and fascist aggression already underway in Europe, yet his ra…

Speech and thought in Latin war narratives: words of warriors

by Adema, Suzanne Maria

fromAmsterdam studies in classical philology

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Speech and thought representation in Latin war narrative -- Linguistic forms of speech and thought representation in Latin narrative -- Narrative techniques and representations of speech and thought -- Caesar, Bellum Gallicum -- Vergil, Aeneid 11 & 12 -- Conclusion.