TY  - BOOK
AU  - Safire,William
TI  - Lend me your ears: Great speeches in history 
SN  - 9780393040050
U1  - 808.85 23
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Speeches, Addresses
KW  - Speeches, Addresses, Etc
KW  - Famous Persons
KW  - Addresses
KW  - Politics
KW  - Religion
N2  - An instant classic when it was first published a decade ago and now enriched by seventeen new speeches, contains more than two hundred outstanding moments of oratory. It is selected, arranged, and introduced by William Safire, who honed his skills as a presidential speechwriter. He is considered by many to be America's most influential political columnist and most elegant explicator of our language. Covering speeches from Demosthenes to George W. Bush, this latest edition includes the words of Cromwell to the "Rump Parliament," Orson Welles eulogizing Darryl F. Zanuck, General George Patton exhorting his troops before D-Day, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking on . A new section incorporates speeches that were never delivered: what Kennedy was scheduled to say in Dallas; what Safire wrote for Nixon if the first moon landing met with disaster; and what Clinton originally planned to say after his grand jury testimony but swapped for a much fiercer speech
ER  -