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WW Norton & Co Lend Me Your Ears by William Safire
An instant classic when it was first published a decade ago and now enriched by seventeen new speeches Lend Me Your Ears contains more than two hundred outstanding moments of oratory. It is selected arranged and introduced by William Safire who honed his skills as a presidential speechwriter. He is considered by many to be Americas most influential political columnist and most elegant explicator of our language. Covering speeches from Demosthenes to George W. Bush this latest edition includes the words of Cromwell to the Rump Parliament Orson Welles eulogizing Darryl F. Zanuck General George Patton exhorting his troops before D-Day and Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking on Bush v. Gore. A new section incorporates speeches that were never delivered: what Kennedy was scheduled to say in Dallas; what Safire wrote for Nixon if the first moon landing met with disaster; and what Clinton originally planned to say after his grand jury testimony but swapped for a much fiercer speech