Overview
"Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing is a collection of significant speeches, made both by those who held the reins of power and those who didn't, at significant times in American history. Read the original words--sometimes abridged and sometimes in their entirety--that have shaped our cultural fabric. Introductions by acclaimed writer Tonya Bolden provide historical context and critical insights to the meaning and impact of every speech. This collection includes the following: Patrick Henry, ""Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death""George Washington, Farewell AddressRed Jacket, ""We Never Quarrel about Religion""Frederick Douglass, ""What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?""Sojourner Truth, ""I Am a Woman's Rights""Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg AddressTheodore Roosevelt, ""Citizenship in a Republic""Franklin Delano Roosevelt, ""The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself""Lou Gehrig, ""Farewell to Baseball""Langston Hughes, ""On the Blacklist All Our Lives""John Fitzgerald Kennedy, ""We Choose to Go to the Moon""Martin Luther King, Jr., ""I Have a Dream""Fannie Lou Hamer, ""I Question America""Cesar Chavez, Address to the Commonwealth Club of California, 1984Hillary Rodham Clinton, ""Women's Rights Are Human Rights""Strong Voices includes a foreword by #1 New York Times bestselling author and celebrated journalist Cokie Roberts. Strong Voices is a tremendous introduction to the extraordinary words spoken in history. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook."
Full Product Details
Author: Various Authors ,
Lisa Renee Pitts ,
Prentice Onayemi ,
Tonya Bolden
Publisher: HarperCollins
Imprint: HarperCollins
Edition: Abridged edition
Dimensions:
Width: 14.70cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 14.20cm
Weight: 0.136kg
ISBN: 9781094107370
ISBN 10: 1094107379
Publication Date: 11 February 2020
Recommended Age: From 8 to 14 years
Audience:
Children/juvenile
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Children / Juvenile
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Not yet available
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Reviews
A golden celebration of the multicultural voices who demand that the US--and the world--do better. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Author Information
Lisa Rene� Pitts is an accomplished actress in theater, film, and television, appearing in The Practice, The Shield, and Law & Order. A native New Yorker, she holds a BFA in theater arts from Rutgers University and resides in Burbank, California. Prentice Onayemi is an Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator and a voice and film actor who is known for his roles in The Steam-Room Crooner, AmeriQua, and as Joey in the Tony Award-winning play War Horse. Tonya Bolden has authored/edited/co-authored more than ten books, among which are 33 Things Every Girl Should Know, And Not Afraid to Dare: The Stories of Ten African American Women, and Strong Men Keep Coming: The Book of African American Men. She lives in New York City. Cokie Roberts (1943-2019) was an American journalist, a political commentator, senior news analyst, and bestselling author. She had been cited as one of the fifty greatest women in the history of broadcasting by the American Women in Radio and Television.She won the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for coverage of Congress, and a 1991 Emmy Award for her contribution to Who Is Ross Perot? In 2000, she won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. She and her mother, Lindy, won the Foremother Award from the National Center for Health Research in 2013. She was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame in 2000.
