American speeches : political oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton / [Ted Widmer, editor].

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Library of America ; 167.
Other Authors: Widmer, Edward L.
Language:English
Published: New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam, [2006], ©2006.
Series:Library of America ; 167.
Subjects:
United States > Politics and government > Sources.
United States > History > Sources.
Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
Political oratory > United States.
Genre:
Sources.
Physical Description:872 pages ; 21 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Speech on Reconstruction / Abraham Lincoln
  • Speech in Congress on Reconstruction / Thaddeus Stevens
  • Speech at Meeting Commemorating Emancipation / Sojourner Truth
  • Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote? / Susan B. Anthony
  • Speech in Congress on the Civil Rights Bill / Robert Brown Elliott
  • Speech in Congress on the Civil Rights Bill / Benjamin F. Butler
  • Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln / Frederick Douglass
  • Speech Nominating James G. Blaine / Robert G. Ingersoll
  • Reply to General Howard / Chief Joseph
  • Memorial Day Address / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Address at the Dedication of the Statue of Liberty / Grover Cleveland
  • Solitude of Self / Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Lynch Law in All Its Phases / Ida B. Wells
  • Labor Day Address / John Peter Altgeld
  • Address at the Atlanta Exposition / Booker T. Washington
  • Speech to the Democratic National Convention / William Jennings Bryan
  • Strenuous Life; Man with the Muck-rake; New Nationalism / Theodore Roosevelt
  • Policy of Imperialism / Carl Schurz
  • What It Means to Be Colored in the Capital of the United States / Mary Church Terrell
  • Speech at Prayer Meeting / John Jay Chapman
  • First Inaugural Address; Address to Congress on War with Germany; Address to the Senate on the League of Nations / Woodrow Wilson
  • Speech in the Senate on Free Speech in Wartime / Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
  • Address to Woman Suffrage Convention / Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Speech to the Court / Eugene V. Debs
  • Speech in the Senate on the League of Nations / Henry Cabot Lodge
  • ''Rugged Individualism'' Speech / Herbert Hoover
  • Speech to the Democratic National Convention (Chicago); Speech to the Commonwealth Club; First Inaugural Address; Speech to the Democratic National Convention (Philadelphia); Second Inaugural Address; ''Arsenal of Democracy'' (Fireside Chat); Eighth Annual Address to the Congress; Address to Congress on War with Japan / Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Every Man a King / Huey Long
  • Speech to Third Army Troops / George S. Patton
  • Address to the Allied Expeditionary Forces; Second Inaugural Address; Farewell Address / Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Statement on the Atomic Bomb; Speech on the Democratic National Convention / Harris S. Truman
  • Speech to Los Alamos Scientists / J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Speech at Harvard University / George C. Marshall
  • Speech to the Democratic National Convention / Hubert H. Humphrey
  • Declaration of Conscience / Margaret Chase Smith
  • Nobel Prize Address / William Faulkner
  • Address to Congress / Douglass MacArthur
  • ''Checkers'' Speech; Remarks on Leaving the White House / Richard M. Nixon
  • Speech to the Montgomery Improvement Association; Address at the March on Washington; Nobel Prize Address; Speech on the Vietnam War; Sermon at the National Cathedral; Speech at Mason Temple / Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association; Inaugural Address; Address at American University; Address to the Nation on Civil Rights; Speech in the Rudolph Wilde Platz / John F. Kennedy
  • Crisis in Woman's Identity / Betty Friedan
  • Ballot or the Bullet / Malcolm X
  • Speech to the Republican National Convention / Barry Goldwater
  • Speech on Behalf of Barry Goldwater; Address to Members of Parliament; Address at Pointe-du-Hoc; Address to the Nation on the Challenger Disaster; Speech at the Brandenburg Gate / Ronald Reagan
  • Speech in Sproul Plaza / Mario Savio
  • Address to Congress on Voting Rights; Address at Howard University / Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Address at the University of Cape Town; Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King / Robert F. Kennedy
  • Statement to the House Judiciary Committee / Barbara Jordan
  • Address to the Nation on Energy Policy / Jimmy Carter
  • Speech to the Democratic National Convention / Edward M. Kennedy
  • Speech to the Democratic National Convention / Jesse Jackson
  • Speech at Mason Temple; Speech at Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas / William J. Clinton
  • Biographical notes
  • Note on the texts
  • Notes
  • Index.