Brian MacArthur

The world's most famous speeches, together in one volume. From Moses to Nelson Mandela, speeches have helped both change the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped. A great orator, however, has to have the right words and the right message to inspire his or her followers. The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches gathers together...

From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, the most significant speeches of the modern era. This definitive collection gathers the most significant speeches of the modern era, from Theodore Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. to Ronald Reagan and Michelle Obama. Defined by waves of idealism and doubt, progress and destruction, the twentieth century and the first decades of the twenty-first...