The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches

作者 Brian MacArthur
出版社 Penguin
出版时间 2017年10月
ISBN 0241982391 或 9780241982396
定价 97.00

内容简介

FromMosestoNelsonMandela,speecheshavechangedthewayweseetheworldandthewaytheworldisshaped.ThePenguinBookofHistoricSpeechesgatherstogethertheworld'sgreatestspeeches,bringingtogetherthewordsofoveronehundredmenandwomen.ThesebrilliantandpassionatedeclarationsbySocrates,Robespierre,Lincoln,QueenElizabethI,Churchill,Washington,Pankhurst,Gandhiandmanyothersprovideavividglimpseofhistoryinthemakingwhileretainingtheirpowertomoveandinspiretoday.'Impeccable.MacArthurprefaceseachaddresswithashortbutscholarlyhistoricalexplanationthatsetsthesceneperfectly.Anattractivevolume'AndrewRoberts,SundayTimes'Workswellnotjustasananthologybutasahistory'IndependentonSunday

作者简介

BrianMacArthurwasfoundereditorofTodayandTheTimesHigherEducationSupplement,andeditoroftheWesternMorningNews.HewasdeputyeditoroftheSundayTimesandexecutiveeditorofTheTimes.HehaswrittenSurvivingtheSword:PrisonersoftheJapanese1942-1945.HehasbeeninterestedinthepoweroforatorysincefirsthearingAneurinBevanonthehustingsin1956andhaseditedThePenguinBookofModernSpeechesandThePenguinBookofTwentieth-CenturyProtest.BrianMacArthurlivesinNorfolkandLondonandhastwodaughters.

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