Speeches that shaped the modern world
Whiticker, Alan2005
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These speeches have recurring themes of politics and diplomacy, war and peace, freedom and justice, civil rights and human rights. Drawn from across fifteen nations and the last one hundred years
Main title:
Speeches that shaped the modern world / by Alan J. Whiticker
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Imprint:
Frenchs Forest N.S.W. New Holland 2005
Collation:
383 p illustrations (some col)
Contents:
The old world, 1901-1919: The Duke of Cornwell and York, Mary Church Terrell, Theodore Roosevelt, Emmeline Pankhurst, Patrick Pearse, Woodrow Wilson, Emma Goldman, Vladimir Ilych Lenin - Between the wars, 1920-1939: Clarence S. Darrow, Margaret Sanger, Franklin D. Roosevelt, King Edward V111, Josef V. Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Lou Gehrig, Neville Chamberlain - War Peace and Freedom, 1940-1949: Winston Churchill, Charles Lindburgh, Cardinal Clement von Galen, Hideki Tojo, Mohandas K. Gandhi, General George S. Patton, Harry S. Truman, Golda Meir - The Cold War, 1950-1959: Joseph R. Mccarthy, Margaret Chase Smith, Douglas Macarthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bertrand Russell, Nikita Khrushchev, Mao Zedong, Charles De Gaulle - Revolution, 1960-1969: Harold MacMillan, Fidel Castro, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, Edward 'Teddy' Kennedy, Neil Armstrong - Absolute Power, 1970-1979: Shirley Chisholm, John Kerry, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford, Gough Whitlam, Barbara Jordan, Anwar el-Sadat, Jimmy Carter - The Big Chill, 1980-1989: Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul 11, Bob Geldof, Ronald Reagan, Reverend Jimmy Swaggart, Jesse Jackson, Ryan White - The Dawn of Enlightenment, 1990-1999: Mikhail Gorbachev, Paul Keating, Queen Elizabeth 11, Nelson Mandela, Earl Spencer, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Elie Wiesel - The New Millennium, 2000- ; George W. Bush, Arundhati Roy
ISBN:
1741103096 (hbk)
Dewey class:
808.85 SPE
Local class:
808.85
Language:
English
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BRN:
132422
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 808.85 SPE | Available |