Infamous Speeches: From Robespierre to Osama bin Laden (Dover Thrift Editions: Speeches/Quotations) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486478491 ISBN 13: 9780486478494

Publisher: Dover Publications, 2011

Synopsis

This anthology comprises some of history's most hateful public addresses, consisting of speeches invoking racism, genocide, anti-Semitism, terrorism, and other extreme views. Selections range from an oration by Robespierre during the Reign of Terror that followed the French Revolution to Osama bin Laden's threats related to the terrorist actions of 9/11.
Additional speeches include Andrew Jackson's Seventh Annual Message to Congress in 1835, promoting the Indian Removal Act; Jefferson Davis' 1861 announcement of Southern secession; and Joseph R. McCarthy's "Wheeling" speech of 1950, in which the senator claimed knowledge of Communist loyalists within the U. S. government. Other speakers include Hitler, Mussolini, Mao Tse-Tung, and Stalin. Each speech features a brief introduction that places it in historical context.

About this title

About the Author:

Bob Blaisdell is professor of English at the City University of New York's Kingsborough Community College and the editor of twenty-two Dover literature and poetry collections.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0486478491
• ISBN 13: 9780486478494
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Bob Blaisdell