| Description |
1 online resource (224 entries) : 1 image, digital files. |
| Note |
Extracted from: Chambers Book of Speeches. Edinburgh : Chambers Harrap, 2006. |
| Contents |
Samuel Adams -- Jane Addams -- Arthur Balfour -- Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- John Bright -- John Brown -- W J Bryan -- Edmund Burke -- George W Bush -- John C Calhoun -- George Canning -- Roger Casement -- Neville Chamberlain -- Charles I -- Bill Clinton -- Robert Clive -- Oliver Cromwell -- Eugene V Debs -- Camille Desmoulins -- Benjamin Disraeli -- Frederick Douglass -- Jonathan Edwards -- Dwight D Eisenhower -- Elizabeth I -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Robert Emmet -- Charles James Fox -- St Francis of Assisi -- Benjamin Franklin -- Giuseppe Garibaldi -- Dick Gephardt -- William Gladstone -- Emma Goldman -- Henry Grattan -- Angelina Grimké -- Keir Hardie -- Patrick Henry -- Victor Hugo -- Edward Irving -- Andrew Jackson -- James VI and I -- Thomas Jefferson -- Jesus of Nazareth -- Lyndon B Johnson -- Samuel Johnson -- Chief Joseph -- John F Kennedy -- Robert F Kennedy -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- Abraham Lincoln -- Martin Luther -- Thomas Macaulay -- John Maclean -- Karl Marx -- James Maxton -- John Stuart Mill -- Honoré de Mirabeau -- The Marquess of Montrose -- Thomas More -- John Henry Newman -- Richard M Nixon -- Daniel O'Connell -- Emmeline Pankhurst -- Charles Stewart Parnell -- St Patrick -- `Pdraig Pearse -- Pericles -- William Pitt the Elder -- Ronald Reagan -- Chief Red Jacket -- Maximilien Robespierre -- Franklin D Roosevelt -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Chief Seattle -- Margaret Chase Smith -- Joseph Stalin -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Charles Sumner -- Sun Yat-sen -- Jonathan Swift -- Harry S Truman -- Sojourner Truth -- Bartolomeo Vanzetti -- George G Vest -- William Wallace -- Robert Walpole -- Booker T Washington -- George Washington -- The Duke of Wellington -- John Wesley -- William Wilberforce -- Oscar Wilde -- Woodrow Wilson -- John Winthrop -- Frances Wright. |
| Access |
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Summary |
The content of this title is extracted from "Chambers Book of Speeches", a major new anthology bringing together a diverse selection of eloquent, powerful, witty and passionate speeches, given by politicians, monarchs, rebels and intellectuals from around the world. Insightful biographical information is provided for each entry, along with a short introduction to the historical context and purpose of each speech. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on title screen (viewed 29 June 2012). |
| Subject |
Speeches, addresses, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Credo Reference (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9781849721820 (online) |
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