Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches In History
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Product NameLend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches In History
ManufacturerW. W. Norton & Company
Retail Price $39.95
EAN-130978039305931
EAN-1409780393059311
UPC978039305931
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TitleLend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History, Updated and Expanded Edition
ISBN0393059316
Author(s)William Safire
Release Date2004-10-30
FormatHardcover
Num of Pages1200
Num. of Items1
Weight0.5 lbs.

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5 Star Rating  "Excellent"2009-04-13
- Reviewed By User: A3QRQIPV1V8NQA
I was surprised at how thick this book was when I received it! It's absolutely loaded with speeches, over 200 in all. Speeches are broken down into sections by the type of speech, so if you're looking for something of a particular flavor, you can skim through the section titles to find what you want.

Sections are as follows:

1. Memorials and Patriotic Speeches
2. Revolutions Speeches
3. Tributes
4. Debates
5. Trials
6. Farewell Speeches
7. Sermons
8. Inspirations Speeches
9. Instructional Speeches
10.Social Responsibility
11.Media Speeches
12.Political Speeches
13.Commencements
14.Undelivered Speeches
 
4 Star Rating  "Lend Me Your Ears"2009-02-25
- Reviewed By User: A3SEWWE8FOGGKG
Great for all history buffs! I found that reading the full texts of so many famous speeches throughout history was exciting on its own, but also added a valuable perspective to my understanding of the cicumstances in which they were delivered.
 
5 Star Rating  "Best Speech Compilation - Ever"2007-12-15
- Reviewed By fnjdean
Safire's collection is, without exception, the best set of speeches out there today. The only competition is Copeland's book and, while Copeland's is more wide-ranging and diverse, Safire reprints the speeches in their entirety. Enormously helpful. Has all of the ones you know should be in there - JFK, MLK, Reagan, Churchill, etc - but also some you wouldn't think of. The beauty of this book is that he prefaces each speech with his own commentary about WHY the speech is special. And, frankly, the introduction, where he opines about the 10 characteristics of a great speech, is worth the hernia you'll get picking up this hefty volume.
 
5 Star Rating  "Lend me your ears and eyes"2007-01-11
- Reviewed By ceallen9
Over 2000 years of the best speeches imaginable. One can sit for 10 minutes or 3 hours and devour the words of history's greatest men and women. A must for every student, political scientist and would be politician.
 
1 Star Rating  "Shame on Norton! Listen to MLK "I have a dream" while reading this book"2006-10-02
- Reviewed By san_fran_dude
The text they have in the first edition of this book for the "I have a dream" speech so deviates from the actual speech, it leads you to wonder two things: a) what kind of crappy editors are reviewing this stuff? and b) if the MLK speech is so screwed up, can you trust the text they provide of the older speeches that you cannot verify by listening to recordings?

This sucks. I am seriously disappointed by the editors at Norton.
 
5 Star Rating  "A Great Resource"2006-04-12
- Reviewed By cjcunneen
It is so difficult to do justice to a book about great speeches. By definition, the content should be good - even great, which is partly why this book is such a rich treasure. The other reason why Lend Me Your Ears is such a useful resource is the commentary provided by editor William Safire.

Safire opens the book with "An Introductory Address." It is a witty treatise on the elements of a great speech. The ten steps (plus a "secret eleventh")he outlines are not original, but in total provide very good guidelines for the budding speechwriter.

Safire then provides context and a brief critique for each of the speeches referenced. These speeches range from ancient Greece to today. Some of them are not great speeches, some are not by nice people, but in their own way the speeches were effective - sometimes horribly so e.g. Adolph Hitler, Lenin, Stalin.

His commentary on Hitler for instance explains very simply and lucidly why this "curse of Hitler," in Winston Churchill's words, became so compelling to many Germans. "Hitler's speeches often lacked the strength of coherence, but with slashing racism and the powerful imagery of nationalism, he was able to delight and control crowds resentful of the reminders of past defeats."

I'm not sure if the reader will ever get to all the speeches in the book, but it is a great shelf item, to pick up at will, browse, imagine you were there when Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg, when Lou Gehrig bids farewell to baseball (in a beautiful short address)and when Senator Everett Dirksen extols the virtue of the Marigold. I kid you not.

Two gems I really appreciated and are little nuggets. Branch Rickey discovers the quality that makes a baseball player great (Ty Cobb), and Richard Nixon's eulogy for Senator Dirksen, which Safire admits he was partly responsible for.

For the keen student of communication and speech, this book is a treasure.
 
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