Speeches

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Based on her inspiring, viral 2018 commencement speech to Barnard College's graduates in New York City, New York Time...

How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman EmpireThe assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant...

Volume VII of The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne gathers sermons preached by Donne at different venues for the related liturgical occa...

The book is based on Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s speeches, press conferences, proclamations, and letters. The eleven chapters of the first part add...

Public speaking is the no. 1 fear in the world. Leading speech coach Susie Ashfield is here to change that. ___   Susie Ashfield is Britain’s leadi...

Reclaims public speaking as a central cultural form of the nineteenth centuryPlaces famous speeches by Emmeline Pankhurst, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Tw...

'But I must stop now. I can no longer speak for tears - and my client has ordered that tears are not to be used in his defence.' Cicero (106-43 BC...

In 2014, Volumes One and Two of the speeches and articles of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales were archived and published by the University o...

From the time he arrived on the political scene in 1964 – throughout his presidency and beyond, Ronald Reagan – used his speeches to inspire and re...

Public speech was a key aspect of politics in Republican Rome, both in theory and in practice, and recent decades have seen a surge in scholarly di...

Does the thought of delivering a presentation make your heart skip a beat? Do your pitches fall flat no matter how much preparation you put in? Are...

Unearthed recordings reveal the early days of the literary powerhouses who gave birth to CanLit in the 1960s.From 1969 to 1970, radio interviewer E...

Joe Clark - statesman, businessman, writer, and politician - served as the sixteenth prime minister of Canada from 4 June 1979 to 3 March 1980. Des...

This collection brings together ten of Nobel Prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s most memorable and consequential speeches, delivered in the West...

On the occasion of the inauguration of Cornell's thirteenth president, Elizabeth Garrett, Cornell University Press is pleased to publish the offici...

This book introduces an innovative critical analysis of borders in contemporary political discourse, using examples from the Trump presidency and e...

Introduced by presidential historian Ted Widmer, this work offers both the original texts and insightful essays by leading historians on each of th...

This two-volume scholarly anthology publishes nineteen narratives and eighty speeches written by African American authors in Britain and Ireland in...

This is the twelfth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth c...

An critically-acclaimed Iranian author makes his American literary debut with this powerful and harrowing psychological portrait of modern Iran—an ...

Running from 1990 to 1999, the annual OutWrite conference played a pivotal role in shaping LGBTQ literary culture in the United States and its emer...

This book introduces an innovative critical analysis of borders in contemporary political discourse, using examples from the Trump presidency and e...

This work compiles selected speeches, letters, and statements by the father of Burmese independence, Aung San. The editor's introduction offers an ...

This is an anthology of the top 100 American speeches of the twentieth century, as determined in the nationwide survey of communication scholars co...

Situated at the crossroads of rhetoric and fiction, the genre of declamatio offers its practitioners the freedom to experiment with new forms of di...

The Voice of a People: Speeches from Black America is a collection of speeches from some of the leading African American intellectuals, artists, ac...

One of the great maxims of history is that it is written by the victors, and nowhere does this find greater support than in the later Roman Empire....

Lysias was the leading Athenian speech-writer of his generation (403-380 BC), whose speeches form a leading source for all aspects of the history o...

This volume contains testimonia and fragments of Cicero's speeches that circulated in antiquity but which have since been lost. This edition includ...

This fourth volume in the Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke series is also the last of the three Party and Parliament volumes, which follow Edm...

Originally published in 2005. Throughout the fractious years of the mid-nineteenth century, Abraham Lincoln's speeches imparted reason and guidance...

This carefully curated collection of the writings and speeches of W. McNeil (Mac) Lowry will provide significant information about and insight into...

First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new writings - a fitting tribute to...