This entry was posted in Randys blog entries and tagged Al Gore, cynicism, Harvard commencement, Hope, Lend Me Your Ears Great Speeches in History, possibility, William Safire on Jby randy. Robert Taft opposing war crimes trials after WWII) as well as its victors. Tag Archives: Lend Me Your Ears Great Speeches in History Cynicism It Saps Our Inventiveness It Withers Our Souls. George Patton inspiring Allied troops on the eve of D-Day to Pericles’s impassioned eulogy for fallen Greek soldiers during the Peloponnesian War and from Jesus of Nazareth’s greatest sermons to Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s fiery speech in response to the Bush vs. Lend me your ears : great speeches in history / selected and introduced by William Safire cover jacket design by David Ter-Avanesyan is a resource in the. 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. The selections range widely through Western history, from Pericles's funeral oration to fallen Greek soldiers in the Peloponnesian War, to Tony Blair""exhorting his party to fight terrorism."" History has yet to pass judgment on the greatness of the most recent speeches included here, but Safire shows a broad-minded, bipartisan inclusiveness in collecting the words of Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, history's losers (Sen. Speeches in Lend Me Your Ears span a broad stretch of history, from Gen.
But many readers will no doubt skip his prefatory lesson in rhetoric and go right to the speeches themselves. The third edition of this comprehensive collection of oratory through the ages is appropriately edited by former presidential speechwriter Safire-a man who knows firsthand the importance of putting together the right words for the right moment. The definitive compendium of classic and modern oratory expandedwith a new preface on what makes a speech great.
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