William Safire

“The Top 100 Speeches” throughout United States history

December 19, 2012

  If you click here you can check out “The Top 100 Speeches” at the American Rhetoric website. Better yet, you can click on any/all of the 100 speeches and read the text. And even better yet, you can click on…

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Lend Me Your Ears: A book review by Bob Morris

December 13, 2012

Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History William Safire W.W. Norton (1997) If there is a better anthology of great speeches, I am not aware of it. The text from which its title is derived is Mark Antony’s speech…

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