Lend Me Your Ears Great Speeches in History [Hardcover]

An instant classic when it was first published a decade ago and now enriched by seventeen new speeches,Bill Safire's collection of galvanizing speeches ancient and modern is wonderfully done, the taste in the selection eclectic, discriminating, piquant, and enchantingly introduced. Makes for wonderful reading.This is the most valuable kind of book, the kind that benefits mind and heart.... My fellow Americans, Safire is a gem.To teach and to please, some Greek once advised, is the function of great rhetoric, and Safire has put together [a] volume that embod[ies] those functions and their power.The definitive compendium of classic and modern oratory expandedwith a new preface on what makes a speech great.