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301 pages ; 24 cm. |
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McGraw-Hill series in speech
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McGraw-Hill series in speech.
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| Contents |
Sinners in the hands of an angry God / Jonathan Edwards -- Liberty or death ; Against adopting the Federal constitution / Patrick Henry -- For adoption of the Federal constitution / James Madison -- Knapp-White murder case ; Reply to Hayne ; Seventh of March, 1850, speech / Daniel Webster -- The slavery question / John C. Calhoun -- The compromise of 1850 / Henry Clay -- The Lincoln-Douglas debate at Alton / Stephen A. Douglas -- The Lincoln-Douglas joint debate at Alton ; First inaugural address ; Gettysbury address ; Second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- For southern rights / William Lowndes Yancey -- The American scholar / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Murder of Lovejoy ; The scholar in a replublic / Wendell Phillips -- The two revelations / Henry Ward Beecher -- Decoration day address ; At his brother's grave / Robert Green Ingersoll -- The new south / Henry W. Grady -- Atlanta exposition address / Booker T. Washington -- Cross of gold / William Jennings Bryan -- The Philippine question / Albert Jeremiah Beveridge -- The man with the muckrake / Theodore Roosevelt -- First inaugural address ; War message ; For the League of Nations / Woodrow Wilson -- Free speech in wartime / Robert M. La Follette -- Shall a labor party be formed? / Samuel Gompers -- Americanism / William E. Borah -- First inaugural address ; Declaration of war against Japan ; Keeping political faith / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- A Christian conscience about war / Harry Emerson Fosdick -- Inaugural address / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Acceptance speech / Adlai Stevenson. |
| Subject |
Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
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Speeches, addresses, etc., American. |
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United States -- Politics and government.
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United States. |
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Politics and government. |
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