Great Speeches of Our Time: Speeches that Shaped the Modern World

Great Speeches of Our Time: Speeches that Shaped the Modern World

by HywelWilliams (Author)

Synopsis

'Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfil themselves.' These powerful words, spoken by Nelson Mandela in his inaugural address as the new president of South Africa, are taken from just one of the forty important and thought-provoking speeches in this collection. Ranging from 1945 to the present day, they provide an important insight into the modern world. Inspirational speeches by Winston Churchill, Mikhail Gorbachev, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama and many others are supplemented with biographies of each speaker, as well an exploration of their words' significance and an historical account of the consequences of their oratory. This is a history of the recent and contemporary world told through the speeches that shaped it.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: Greenfinch
Published: 31 Jan 2013

ISBN 10: 1780877463
ISBN 13: 9781780877464

Author Bio
Hywel Williams is a renowned historian, newspaper columnist, political advisor and TV presenter. He is the author of the famous political expose Guilty Men and the massive Cassell's Chronology of World History.