Speeches

<b>The Greatest Speeches of All-Time </b> Box Set
$29.99
I teach an introductory public speaking course at a local university and start each class with a speech from one of these DVDs. They're wonderful examples of great public speaking and, I hope, an inspiration to my students. For anyone who appreciates history and major political figures, this is a terrific collection to own.

The World's Great Speeches: Fourth Enlarged (1999) Edition
$18.95
The speeches are divided in times and places, it would be easier I think if they where just by speaker.

The Penguin Book of 20th-Century Speeches
$17.00
Amazing how some journalists like Brian MacArthur can so shamelessly abandon any pretence of objectivity even when compiling some data as straight forward as outstanding speeches. Thus in his 525 pages of speeches from leaders that span the world of the 20th Century, there isn't even one speech from any leaders of the Middle East and North Africa, such as Nasser, or of any of some of the outstanding orators which that region delegated to the UN, like Baroudy. By contrast of course the relatively obscure Zionist leaders Chaim Weizmann and Chaim Herzog are given more space than Winston Churchill and almost five times the space given to Charles de Gaulle. The same prejudice and inaccurate information can also be found in MacArthur's introductory remarks to some of the speeches. He states that Israel was created in 1946 when it is public knowledge that Israel was carved out of Arab Palestine in 1948 by expelling 800,000 Palestinians out of their homes and land.
It is not a credit to Penguin books to have published such a book containing some obvious distortions and fallacies.

How to Write and Give a Speech, Second Revised Edition: A Practical Guide For Executives, PR People, the Military, Fund-Raisers, Politicians, Educators, and Anyone Who Has to Make Every Word Count
$14.95
I'm sure there's a better book on giving speeches but this one was so good that I'm not interested in looking for it. This book was simple enough for anyone to read and get something out of it yet detailed enough to help you complete and polish a great speech.