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Award--winning presidential scholar and speechwriter Wynton Hall brings together the Republican Party's greatest oratorical gems, from Lincolna s Gettysburg Address and Teddy Roosevelta s the Man with the Muckrake to Ronald Reagana s ""Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"" and George W. Busha s ""our mission and our moment"" speech after 9/11. Hall examines the historical context of each of these great addresses and reveals the persuasive secrets that make each speech truly outstanding.

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Author:   Wynton C. Hall
Publisher:   Turner Publishing Company
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.466kg
ISBN:  

9780471758167

ISBN 10:   0471758167
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 February 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments. INTRODUCTION. The Elephant Poachers: Leftist Academe and the Erasure of Republican Remembrance. 1 Abraham Lincoln: The First and Greatest. The Gettysburg Address NOVEMBER 19, 1863, BATTLEFIELD, GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA. Second Inaugural MARCH 4, 1865, U.S. CAPITOL,WASHINGTON, D.C. 2 Theodore Roosevelt: The Rough--Riding Rhetorician. The Strenuous Life APRIL 10, 1899,THE HAMILTON CLUB, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. The Man with the Muck--Rake APRIL 15, 1906,WASHINGTON, D.C. 3 William F. Buckley Jr.: American Conservatism Finds Its Spokesman in the Speech That Wasn't. Yale Alumni Day Speech FEBRUARY 1950 (UNDELIVERED), YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT. 4 Dwight D. Eisenhower: Strategic Speechifying. Atoms for Peace DECEMBER 8, 1953, UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, NEW YORK, NEW YORK Little Rock SEPTEMBER 24, 1957, OVAL OFFICE,THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON, D.C. 5 Everett Dirksen: The Speech That Made the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Possible. The Time Has Come JUNE 10, 1964, U.S. SENATE,WASHINGTON, D.C. 6 Barry Goldwater: You Know He's Right . Extremism in the Defense of Liberty Is No Vice JULY 16, 1964, REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, THE COW PALACE, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. 7 Richard M. Nixon: The Beginning of the End. Checkers SEPTEMBER 23, 1952, U.S. CAPITOL,WASHINGTON, D.C. 8 Gerald R. Ford: Our Long National Nightmare Is Over . Oath of the U.S. Presidency AUGUST 9, 1974, EAST ROOM OF THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D.C. 9 Ronald Reagan: A Shining Speaker on a Hill. The Evil Empire MARCH 8, 1983, ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS, ORLANDO, FLORIDA. Challenger JANUARY 28, 1986, OVAL OFFICE,THE WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D.C. Mr. Gorbachev,Tear Down This Wall JUNE 12, 1987, BRANDENBURG GATE, BERLIN, GERMANY. 10 Newt Gingrich: The Revolutionary Speaker. The Contract with America JANUARY 4, 1995, INAUGURAL SPEECH AS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,WASHINGTON, D.C. 11 George W. Bush: His Mission and His Moment. Justice Will Be Done SEPTEMBER 20, 2001, JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS, U.S. CAPITOL,WASHINGTON, D.C. 12 John McCain: The Maverick and His Message. A Disingenuous Filmmaker AUGUST 30, 2004, REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION, MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK, NEW YORK. Notes. Index.

Reviews

Hall, a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, believes that Leftist Academe has effected an erasure of Republican remembrance, something he seeks to correct with this collection of 17 speeches by members of the Grand Old Party. Some of these texts are seminal pieces of American political oratory-- Richard Nixon's Checkers speech; Reagan's 1987 remarks at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. In his prefatory notes to each speech, Hall teases out themes, such as commitments to individualism, military strength, and self-reliance, that have long marked Republican thinking. Unfortunately, Hall's hysterical introduction to the book-- which is more about the radicalized professoriate and the liberal Democrats [who] dominate our nation's campuses than about Republicans-- will alienate readers who don't share his partisan viewpoint. Indeed, this anthology doesn't adequately testify to ideological diversity within the Republican Party; yes, Lincoln's two most famous speeches (the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural) lead the book, and Hall includes two by Teddy Roosevelt, but after that, it's on to William F. Buckley and Dwight Eisenhower. This would have been a much different book had Hall included samples of, say, Radical Republican speechifying during Reconstruction. (Mar.) ( Publishers Weekly, November 27, 2006)

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Wynton C. Hall is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. An award--winning presidential scholar, speechwriter, and author, Hall holds an M.A. from Texas A&M University in speech communication with an emphasis in presidential rhetoric and public affairs. In 2003, he was appointed to the eight--person National Task Force on the Presidency and Public Opinion, which is composed of some of the top presidential scholars in the United States. Hall is the coauthor of The Greatest Communicator: What Ronald Reagan Taught Me about Politics, Leadership, and Life (Wiley). His work has been published in The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Times, Presidential Studies Quarterly, National Review Online, and elsewhere.

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