Overview
For better, for worse, the great public speakers have always had the power to change the world. Brian MacArthur's anthology includes the most famous and notorious speeches delivered in English since 1899 as well as speeches in translation by Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini and Castro among others. From Vaclav Havel to Martin Luther King, and from Hitler winning over the industrialists to Churchill rousing the English, this anthology contains many of the masterpieces that helped shape the 20th Century. This edition has been full revised and new speeches added.
Full Product Details
Author: Brian MacArthur ,
Brian MacArthur
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.383kg
ISBN: 9780140285000
ISBN 10: 0140285008
Pages: 560
Publication Date: 25 November 1999
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Replaced By: 9780140232349
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
The second and much-expanded edition of this bestseller includes not only all the great 'classic' political speeches of the 20th century - Kennedy's 'New Frontier', Churchill's 'Finest Hour', Roosevelt's 'Four Freedoms', Macmillan's 'Wind of Change' and Martin Luther King's 'Dream', to name but a few - but many from the recent past, like Boris Yeltsin's official apology for the Bolsheviks' murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family in 1918, Michael Portillo at the Conservative Party's 1997 conference on 'The Causes of Defeat', Earl Spencer's Westminster Abbey tribute to his sister Princess Diana and Bill Clinton's television address to the nation on his relations with Monica Lewinsky. (Kirkus UK)
Author Information
Brian MacArthur was founder editor of Today and The Times Higher Education Supplement, and editor of the Western Morning News. He was deputy editor of the Sunday Times and executive editor of The Times. He has written Surviving the Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-1945. He has been interested in the power of oratory since first hearing Aneurin Bevan on the hustings in 1956 and has edited The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches and The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Protest. Brian MacArthur lives in Norfolk and London and has two daughters. Brian MacArthur was founder editor of Today and The Times Higher Education Supplement, and editor of the Western Morning News. He was deputy editor of the Sunday Times and executive editor of The Times. He has written Surviving the Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-1945. He has been interested in the power of oratory since first hearing Aneurin Bevan on the hustings in 1956 and has edited The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches and The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Protest. Brian MacArthur lives in Norfolk and London and has two daughters.
