Physical Description:xxi, 842 pages ; 22 cm. print
Edition:Third enlarged edition.
Publisher:New York :Dover Publications,[1973]
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note:
First Inaugural address / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- hemisphere Defense for Democracy / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- "The arsenal for Democracy" / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Freedom of the seas / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- For a Declaration of War against Japan / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- America's answer to Japan's challenge / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- First war address before Congress / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- "Loyal opposition" / Wendell L. Wilkie -- American Liberty / Wendell L. Willkie -- The pillars of enduring peace / Cordell Hull -- What are we arming to defend? / James Bryant Conant -- An independent policy / Charles A. Lindbergh -- A grave situation / Henry L Stimson -- What constitutes an Amercan / Harold L. Ickes -- We must fight for our liberties / Frank Knox -- The cross and the double cross / Fulton J. Sheen -- Hitler's plans for Canada and the United States / Dorothy Thompson -- America's second chance / Henry A. Wallace -- America and the war / Norman Thomas -- Control of atomic weapons / Bernard Mannes Baruch -- Inaugural address / Harry S. Truman -- Powers of the President / Harry S. Truman -- Old soldiers never die / Douglas MacArthur -- Acceptance of nomination / Adlai Ewing Stevenson -- United States Far Eastern policy / Adlai Ewing Stevenson -- Inaugural address / Dwight David Eisenhower -- Peaceful use of atomic energy / Dwight David Eisenhower -- The spirit of Geneva / Dwight David Eisenhower -- An iron curtain has descended / Winston Churchill -- Asia finds herself again / Jawaharlal Nehru -- A glory has departed / Jawaharlal Nehru -- A new order through the United Nations / Oswaldo Aranha -- The search for international cooperation / Pierre Mendés-France-- Values of nationalism and internationalism / Dag Hammarskjold -- The lessening of international tension / Nickolai Aleksandrovich Bulganin -- On architecture / Frank Lloyd Wright -- Peace in the atomic age / Albert Einstein -- Acceptance of the Nobel Prize / William Faulkner -- A visit to America / Dylan Thomas -- The United Nations as a bridge / Eleanor Roosevelt -- Prospect in the arts and sciences / J. Robert Oppenheimer -- A historical agreement / Walter Philip Reuther -- To the graduating class as Smith College / Adlai Ewing Stevenson -- The memory of Burns / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- English Frienship for America / Charles Dickens -- A tribue to Oliver Wendell Holmes / Julia Ward Howe -- After-dinner oratory / James Russell Lowell -- Dorothy Q. / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Through the dark continent / Henry Morton Stanley -- Merchants and ministers / Henry Ward Beecher -- Woman / Chauncey Mitchell Depew -- The bench and the bar / Joseph Hodges Choate -- A tribute to the dog / George Graham Vest -- Woman! / Horace Porter -- Science and Art / Thomas Henry Huxley -- The old world and the new / Carl Schurz -- "Pinafore" / William Schwenck Gilbert -- Music / Sir Arthur Sullivan -- Boston / Edward Everett Hale -- The New Englanders / Ulysses Simpson Grant -- New England Weather / Samuel L. Clemens -- The babies / Samuel L. Clemens -- Woman, God Bless Her! / Samuel L. Clemens -- Harvard and Yale / Charles William Eliot -- The Puritan and the Cavalier / Henry Watterson -- Omar Khyyam / John Hay -- The drama / Sir Henry Irving -- Farthest North / Robert Edwin Peary -- General Goethals and the Panama Canal / Andrew Carnegie -- Englishmen and Americans / Lord Cecil -- Literature and the press / Sir James Matthew Barrie -- The lost tribes of the Irish in the south / Irvin S. Cobb -- Wealth and education / Will Rogers -- Owning books / William Lyon Phelps -- Farewell Address / Edward VIII -- Culture / Owen D. Young -- Our family creed / John D. Rockefeller Jr. -- Inaugural address / John Fitzgerald Kennedy -- The strategy of peace / John Fitzgerald Kennedy -- Poetry and Power / John Fitzgerald Kennedy -- I have a dream / Martin Luther King Jr. -- Farewell address / Dwight David Eisenhower -- War and poverty / Robert S. MacNamara -- On Vietnam and on the decision not to seek reelection / Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Uncritical lovers, unloving critics / John W. Gradner -- A generation in search of a future / George Wald -- First inaugural address / Richard Milous Nixon -- To the astronauts on the moon / Richard Milhous Nixon -- Second inaugural address as Mayor / John Vliet Lindsay -- The personality cult and its consequences / Nikita Segeyevich Khrushchev -- Recent thoughts on the two cultures / Lord Snow -- Independence for Algeria / Charles de Gaulle -- The opening of the ecumenical Council / Pope John XXIII -- No more war / Pope Paul VI -- An address to the slaves of the United States of America / Henry Highland Garnet -- The meaning of July fourth for the negro / Frederick Douglass -- Oration in memory of Abraham Lincoln / Frederick Douglass -- Atlanta exposition address / Booker T. Washington -- Behold the land / W. E. B. Du Bois -- The black revolution / Malcolm X --
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