
Speeches That Changed Our Time
From 1945 to the Present
Carlo Bata(Author)
White Star (Publisher)
Published on 17. October 2023
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-88-544-1632-1 (ISBN)
Description
The great speeches since post-World War II to the present have marked eras and interpreted feelings, in a continuously evolving world, when faced with the eternal problems, like life and freedom, and also new challenges. Moving speeches with a great emotional impact, filled with ideas and values, sentences that have changed the course of history: Martin Luther King's 'dream', Churchill's 'iron curtain', Pope John XXIII's 'caress', Obama's 'new beginning'. Not only states people, but scientists, literary figures, entrepreneurs, courageous girls like Malala who asks that the new generations may be guaranteed the right to education. A volume of 40 speeches, contextualised, explained and then given, in their fundamental passages, to enable the reader to immerse in those years.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Vercelli
Italy
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 282 mm
Width: 239 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
1456 gr
ISBN-13
978-88-544-1632-1 (9788854416321)
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Person
Carlo Bata is an author, editor and translator who collaborates with important magazines and newspapers. For White Star, he was the co-author, with Gianni Morelli, of the volume 1968. A Revolutionary Year in Photographs (2017).