William Safire's invaluable and immensely entertaining Lend Me Your Ears established itself instantly as a classic treasury of the greatest speeches in human hi

A historian and former presidential speechwriter presents an unprecedented two-volume collection of the greatest speeches in American history.

Boldly breaking the mold of previous anthologies, Words of a Century: The Top 100 American Speeches, 1900-1999 contains the complete--and authentic--texts of th

The history of the United States has been characterized by ferventidealism, intense struggle, and radical change. And for everycritical, defining moment in Amer