Great Speeches of Our Time: Speeches That Shaped the Modern World

Informationen zum Autor Hywel Williams is a renowned historian, newspaper columnist, political advisor and TV presenter. He is the author of the famous political exposé Guilty Men and the massive Cassell's Chronology of World History . Klappentext Forty of the most memorable speeches made between 1945 and the present day.Forty of the most memorable speeches made between 1945 and the present day. Zusammenfassung 'Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfil themselves.' These powerful words, spoken by Nelson Mandela in his inaugural address as the new president of South Africa, are taken from just one of the forty important and thought-provoking speeches in this collection. Ranging from 1945 to the present day, they provide an important insight into the modern world. Inspirational speeches by Winston Churchill, Mikhail Gorbachev, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama and many others are supplemented with biographies of each speaker, as well an exploration of their words' significance and an historical account of the consequences of their oratory. This is a history of the recent and contemporary world told through the speeches that shaped it. Inhaltsverzeichnis 24074477

Product details

• Authors: Hywel Williams, Williams Hywel
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2013
• EAN: 9781780877464
• ISBN: 978-1-78087-746-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 200 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book; History, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / General, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Speeches