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Title Infamous speeches : from Robespierre to Osama bin Laden / edited by Bob Blaisdell.

Imprint Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, ©2011.

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 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  808.85 In3 2011    ---  Lib Use Only
Description vii, 232 pages ; 21 cm.
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Series Dover thrift editions. Nonfiction
Dover thrift editions.
Contents "The principles of political morality" (February 5, 1794) / Maximilien Marie Isidore Robespierre -- Address to his troops at the beginning of the Russian Campaign (May 1812) / Napoleon Bonaparte -- "Indian removal" (December 7, 1835) / President Andrew Jackson -- "We of the South will not, cannot, surrender our institutions" (February 6, 1837) / John C. Calhoun -- "On withdrawal from the Union" (January 21, 1861) / Jefferson Davis -- Opening address at the Geographical Conference on Africa (September 12, 1876) / King Leopold II -- "A plea for imperial armament" (February 6, 1888) / Otto von Bismarck -- "The future of the British Empire" (November 6, 1895) / Joseph Chamberlain -- "If this be imperialism, its final end will be the empire of the Son of Man" (January 9, 1900) / Albert Jeremiah Beveridge -- "The sword must decide" (August 6, 1914) / Kaiser Wilhelm II -- On the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly (January 6, 1918) / Vladimir Lenin -- Scopes "Monkey Trial" (July 16, 1925) / William Jennings Bryan -- "Our Hitler" (April 20, 1933) / Joseph Goebbels -- "We have been patient with Ethiopia for forty years" (October 2, 1935) / Benito Mussolini -- "Defects in party work and measures for liquidating Trotskyite and other double dealers" (March 3, 1937) / Josef Stalin -- "The Munich Agreement" (October 3, 1938) / Neville Chamberlain -- "The meaning of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact" (August 31, 1939) / Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov -- "America first" (September 11, 1941) / Charles A. Lindbergh -- "Nothing is impossible for the German soldier" (May 4, 1941) / Adolph Hitler -- Radio speech #6 from Fascist Italy (January 29, 1942) / Ezra Pound.
"Enemies from within" (February 9, 1950) / Joseph R. McCarthy -- "A great leap forward" (May 17, 1958) / Mao Tse-Tung -- Governor of Alabama's inaugural address (January 14, 1963) / George C. Wallace -- "Rivers of blood" (April 20, 1968) / Enoch Powell -- First Watergate speech (April 30, 1973) / Richard M. Nixon -- United Nations speech on Zionism as racism (October 1, 1975) / Idi Amin Dada -- Call for mass suicide (November 18, 1978) / James Jones -- "Crossing the Rubicon" (August 15, 1985) / P.W. Botha -- Address to the martial units-Tianamen Square (June 9, 1989) / Deng Xiaoping -- Arab Cooperation Council speech (February 24, 1990) / Saddam Hussein -- Address to the nation on the NATO bombings (October 2, 2000) / Slobodan Milosevic -- "O American people, I address these words to you regarding the best way of avoiding another Manhattan" (October 29, 2004) / Osama bin Laden -- "We are rising up against the empire" (September 20, 2006) / Hugo Chavez.
Summary A collection of public addresses with hateful connotations that have invoked racism, genocide, terrorism, and other extreme views, and featuring select speeches by Andrew Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Joseph R. McCarthy, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Osama bin Laden, and others.
Subject Speeches, addresses, etc.
World history -- Sources.
World politics -- Sources.
Extremists -- History -- Sources.
Extremists. (OCoLC)fst01740595
Speeches, addresses, etc. (OCoLC)fst01129318
World history. (OCoLC)fst01181345
World politics. (OCoLC)fst01181381
Speeches.
World history -- Sources.
World politics -- Sources.
Extremists -- History -- Sources.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
Added Author Blaisdell, Robert.
ISBN 9780486478494 (pbk.)
0486478491 (pbk.)

 
    
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