Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393059311)

An instant classic when it was first published a decade ago and now enriched by seventeen new speeches, Lend Me Your Ears contains more than two hundred outstanding moments of oratory. It is selected, arranged, and introduced by William Safire, who honed his skills as a presidential speechwriter. He is considered by many to be America's most influential political columnist and most elegant explicator of our language. Covering speeches from Demosthenes to George W. Bush, this latest edition includes the words of Cromwell to the "Rump Parliament," Orson Welles eulogizing Darryl F. Zanuck, General George Patton exhorting his troops before D-Day, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking on Bush v. Gore. A new section incorporates speeches that were never delivered: what Kennedy was scheduled to say in Dallas; what Safire wrote for Nixon if the first moon landing met with disaster; and what Clinton originally planned to say after his grand jury testimony but swapped for a much fiercer speech.

Author: William Safire
ISBN-10: 0393059316
ISBN-13: 9780393059311
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 10/17/2004
Pages: 1168
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.40lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.54w x 2.13d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/06/2004