Jump to:In Our Time [Hardback]The Speeches That Changed The Modern Worldby Hywel Williams
In stock, usually dispatched within 24 hours Description of In Our TimeRelive key moments in world history through the greatest speeches of the post-war eraIn our Time brings together 40 of the most memorable, eloquent and influential speeches since 1945. From stark warnings against the threat of totalitarianism to celebrations of independence long fought for, and from rallying-calls for political change to passionate defences of moral principle, Hywel Williams’s choice of speeches is richly eclectic in scope. This is an anthology with many voices: dictators and democrats, liberals and conservatives, nationalists and internationalists, soldiers and peace-makers, popes and presidents. The oratorical skills of some of the greatest political figures of the late 20th and early 21st centuries are on eloquent display here: Churchill and de Gaulle, Kennedy and King, Nehru and Nasser, Mandela and Mao, Thatcher and Blair, Clinton and Obama. Each speech is accompanied by a biography of the speaker, a concise introduction setting it in historical context, and a brief account of its impact and consequences. Both inspiring and thought-provoking, In our Time offers a unique and fascinating perspective on world history since 1945. Speakers include: Eamon de Valera Barry Goldwater Aneurin Bevan Winston Churchill Nelson Mandela Anita Roddick George Marshall Martin Luther King Charles de Gaulle Eleanor Roosevelt Richard Nixon Harold Macmillan Orhan Pamuk Julius Nyerere Pierre Trudeau Jawaharlal Nehru Gamel Abdel Nasser Tony Blair David Ben-Gurion Ronald Reagan J F Kennedy Mao Tse-tung Jesse Jackson Harold Wilson General Douglas MacArthur Richard von Weizsacker Kevin Rudd Nikita Khrushchev Margaret Thatcher Barack Obama Mario Cuomo Fidel Castro Neil Kinnock Seamus Heaney Title Information
Write a review of this book Customer Reviews from AmazonAbout Hywel WilliamsHywel Williams is a historian, journalist and broadcaster. He is the author of the famous political exposé Guilty Men, Cassell's Chronology of World History, Britain’s Power Elites and Days that Changed the World. |
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