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    • Product code: 131113
    • ISBN: 0550101993, ISBN13: 9780550101990, 1008 pages, hardback
      Published by Chambers Harrap on 2006
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    Description of Chambers Book of Speeches

    Foreword by James Naughtie

    Contains more than 250 speeches

    More than 200 speakers represented: Che Guevara, Napoleon Bonaparte, John Cleese, Toni Morrison, Richard Nixon, Haile Selassie, Oscar Wilde

    Extensive coverage - from classical orators to the 21st century

    Biography provided for every speaker

    Historical context and analysis provided for every speech

    This major new anthology brings together a diverse selection of eloquent, powerful, witty and passionate speeches given by politicians, monarchs, rebels and intellectuals from ancient times to the present day. Speakers from Arafat to Zola are represented; biographical information is provided for each entry, along with a short introduction to the historical context and an analysis of the speech's purpose, techniques and references.


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