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

Frederick Douglass, once a slave, was one of the great 19th century American orators and the most important African American voice of his era. This book traces

This work is an in-depth analysis of the full breadth of Sojourner Truth's public discourse that places it in its proper historical context and explores the use

Oratory emerged as the first major form of verbal art in early America because, as John Quincy Adams observed in 1805, "eloquence was POWER." In this book, Sand

An expert analysis of Abraham Lincoln's three most powerful speeches reveals his rhetorical genius and his thoughts on our national character. Abraham Lincoln,