Lend Me Your Ears

Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History Updated and Expanded Edition Hardcover - October 17, 2004 by William Safire (Editor).

The definitive compendium of classic and modern oratory expanded―with a new preface on what makes a speech "great."

An instant classic when it was first published a decade ago and now enriched by seventeen new speeches, Lend Me Your Ears contains more than two hundred outstanding moments of oratory. It is selected, arranged, and introduced by William Safire, who honed his skills as a presidential speechwriter. He is considered by many to be America's most influential political columnist and most elegant explicator of our language. Covering speeches from Demosthenes to George W. Bush, this latest edition includes the words of Cromwell to the "Rump Parliament," Orson Welles eulogizing Darryl F. Zanuck, General George Patton exhorting his troops before D-Day, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking on Bush v. Gore. A new section incorporates speeches that were never delivered: what Kennedy was scheduled to say in Dallas; what Safire wrote for Nixon if the first moon landing met with disaster; and what Clinton originally planned to say after his grand jury testimony but swapped for a much fiercer speech.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 1168 pages
• Dimensions 165 x 244 x 56mm | 1,520g
• Publication date 23 Nov 2004
• Publisher WW Norton & Co
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Edition Statement Updated and Expanded
• ISBN10 0393059316 
• ISBN13 9780393059311