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Title:

Infamous speeches : from Robespierre to Osama bin Laden / edited by Bob Blaisdell.

Publisher:

Dover Publications,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

vii, 232 p. ; 21 cm.

Other Authors:

Blaisdell, Robert.

Contents:

"The meaning of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact" (August 31, 1939) / Radio speech #6 from Fascist Italy (January 29, 1942) / Ezra Pound. Address to his troops at the beginning of the Russian Campaign (May 1812) / Napoleon Bonaparte -- "Indian removal" (December 7, 1835) / President Andrew Jackson -- "We of the South will not, cannot, surrender our institutions" (February 6, 1837) / John C. Calhoun -- "On withdrawal from the Union" (January 21, 1861) / Jefferson Davis -- Opening address at the Geographical Conference on Africa (September 12, 1876) / King Leopold II -- "A plea for imperial armament" (February 6, 1888) / Otto von Bismarck -- "The future of the British Empire" (November 6, 1895) / Joseph Chamberlain -- "If this be imperialism, its final end will be the empire of the Son of Man" (January 9, 1900) / Albert Jeremiah Beveridge -- "The sword must decide" (August 6, 1914) / Kaiser Wilhelm II -- On the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly (January 6, 1918) / Vladimir Lenin -- Scopes "Monkey Trial" (July 16, 1925) / William Jennings Bryan -- "Our Hitler" (April 20, 1933) / Joseph Goebbels -- "We have been patient with Ethiopia for forty years" (October 2, 1935) / Benito Mussolini -- "Defects in party work and measures for liquidating Trotskyite and other double dealers" (March 3, 1937) / Josef Stalin -- "The Munich Agreement" (October 3, 1938) / Neville Chamberlain -- "The meaning of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact" (August 31, 1939) / Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov -- "America first" (September 11, 1941) / Charles A. Lindbergh -- "Nothing is impossible for the German soldier" (May 4, 1941) / Adolph Hitler -- Radio speech #6 from Fascist Italy (January 29, 1942) / Ezra Pound.
"We are rising up against the empire" (September 20, 2006) / Hugo Chavez. "A great leap forward" (May 17, 1958) / Mao Tse-Tung -- Governor of Alabama's inaugural address (January 14, 1963) / George C. Wallace -- "Rivers of blood" (April 20, 1968) / Enoch Powell -- First Watergate speech (April 30, 1973) / Richard M. Nixon -- United Nations speech on Zionism as racism (October 1, 1975) / Idi Amin Dada -- Call for mass suicide (November 18, 1978) / James Jones -- "Crossing the Rubicon" (August 15, 1985) / P.W. Botha -- Address to the martial units-Tianamen Square (June 9, 1989) / Deng Xiaoping -- Arab Cooperation Council speech (February 24, 1990) / Saddam Hussein -- Address to the nation on the NATO bombings (October 2, 2000) / Slobodan Milosevic -- "O American people, I address these words to you regarding the best way of avoiding another Manhattan" (October 29, 2004) / Osama bin Laden -- "We are rising up against the empire" (September 20, 2006) / Hugo Chavez.

Series:

Dover thrift editions. Nonfiction

ISBN:

0486478491 (pbk.)
9780486478494 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)630477973

LCCN:

2010036702

Locations:

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)