The Right Words
Great Republican Speeches that Shaped History
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2007
240 pages
978-1-62045-966-9 (ISBN)
Description
Award-winning presidential scholar and speechwriter Wynton Hall brings together the Republican Party's greatest oratorical gems, from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Teddy Roosevelt's the Man with the Muckrake to Ronald Reagan's "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" and George W. Bush's "our mission and our moment" speech after 9/11. Hall examines the historical context of each of these great addresses and reveals the persuasive secrets that make each speech truly outstanding.
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The Elephant Poachers: Leftist Academe and the Erasure of Republican Remembrance
- 1 Abraham Lincoln: The First and Greatest
- The Gettysburg Address
- Second Inaugural
- 2 Theodore Roosevelt: The Rough-Riding Rhetorician
- The Strenuous Life
- The Man with the Muck-Rake
- 3 William F. Buckley Jr.: American Conservatism Finds Its Spokesman in the Speech That Wasn't
- Yale Alumni Day Speech
- 4 Dwight D. Eisenhower: Strategic Speechifying
- Atoms for Peace
- "Little Rock"
- 5 Everett Dirksen: The Speech That Made the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Possible
- "The Time Has Come"
- 6 Barry Goldwater: "You Know He's Right"
- "Extremism in the Defense of Liberty Is No Vice"
- 7 Richard M. Nixon: The Beginning of the End
- "Checkers"
- 8 Gerald R. Ford: "Our Long National Nightmare Is Over"
- Oath of the US. Presidency
- 9 Ronald Reagan: A Shining Speaker on a Hill
- "The Evil Empire"
- Challenger
- "Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall"
- 10 Newt Gingrich: The Revolutionary Speaker
- "The Contract with America"
- 11 George W. Bush: His Mission and His Moment
- "Justice Will Be Done"
- 12 John McCain: The Maverick and His Message
- "A Disingenuous Filmmaker"
- Notes
- Index
