History comes alive through the voices of the great leaders and newsmakers and in the photos of the biggest events of the past 100 years. From Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy to Martin Luther King, Jr. and General Douglas MacArthur, Words that Shook the World is a collection of history-shaping speeches by some of the world’s most exceptional orators.
Each speech is placed in its historical and personal context within the life and times of its author and the event. To enhance the experience, headlines and contemporaneous press coverage will give readers a glimpse into the popular and critical reception the speech received. The verbatim text of each speech plus running commentary by the author highlights key points and explains what made each speech so successful. Two hundred photographs complement these oratorical achievements and enhance readers’ visual memories, while two audio CDs containing the most compelling sections from the 21 speeches – all but one of them (sorry Theodore Roosevelt was not recorded in 1903!) in the speakers’ own voices – allow readers to appreciate their full spine-chilling power.
Words That Shook the World
Preface by Anthony Robbins
Foreword by Helen Thomas
Foreword by Jeff Greenfield
Introduction by Richard Greene
How We Chose The 20 Speeches That Shook the World
Theodore Roosevelt
1903 "You can not improve on it. Leave it as it is!" (Speech at the Grand Canyon)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
1933 ". . . the only thing we have to fear. . .is fear itself." (First Inaugural Address)
Lou Gehrig
1939 ". . . luckiest man on the face of the earth." (Farewell Speech)
Winston Churchill
1940 ". . . blood, toil, tears, and sweat." (Address to the House of Commons)
Douglas MacArthur
1945 "The entire world is quietly at peace." (Radio Address on Surrender of Japan)
Albert Einstein
1945 "The war is won, but peace is not." (Nobel Prize Anniversary Dinner)
Eleanor Roosevelt
1948 ". . . the international Magna Carta of all men everywhere." (Statement on Adoption of Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
John F. Kennedy
1963 "Ich bin ein Berliner." (Address at the Berlin Wall)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1963 "I have a dream. . ." (March on Washinton for Jobs and Freedom)
Barry Goldwater
1964 ". . . extremism in defense of liberty is no vice!" (Acceptance Speech/Republican National Covention)
Robert F. Kennedy
As Remembered By Edward M. Kennedy
1968 "Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not." (RFK as quoted in Tribute)
Barbara Jordon
1974 "My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total." (House of Representatives on the impeachment of President Nixon)
Anwar Sadat
1979 "Let there be no more wars. . ." (Signing Egypt-Israeli Peace Treaty)
Mario Cuomo
1984 "There is despair, Mr. President, in the faces you don't see. . ." (Keynote Address/Democratic National Convention)
Ronald Reagan
1985 ". . . they . . . 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.'"(Address to Nation after Challenger Disaster)
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet
1989 ". . . a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share." (Nobel Acceptance Speech
Yitzhak Rabin
1993 "Enough of blood and tears. Enough." (Signing of the Israeli-Palestinian Declaration of Principles — Oslo II)
Princess Diana
As Remembered By Earl Spencer
1977 ". . . the unique, the complex, the extarodinary and irreplaceable Diana. . ." (Eulogy)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt And George W. Bush
1941, 2001 Days of Infamy
Acknowledgments
Sources
Index
"A terrific work." -Larry King
