Greene, Richard, 1954-

Words that shook the world : 100 years of unforgettable speeches and events / 100 years of unforgettable speeches and events. One hundred years of unforgettable speeches and events. Richard Greene with Florie Brizel. - New York, New York : Prentice Hall, c2002. - ix, 183 p. : 28 cm. + 2 sound discs (4 3/4 in.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"You can not improve on it. Leave it as it is!" (Speech at the Grand Canyon, 1903) / "The only thing we have to fear...is fear itself" (First inaugural address, 1933) / "Luckiest man on the face of the earth." (farewell speech, 1939) / "Blood, toil, tears, and sweat." (address to the House of Commons, 1940) / "The entire world is quietly at peace." (radio address on surrender of Japan, 1945) / "The war is won, but peace is not." (Nobel Prize anniversary dinner, 1945) / "The international Magna Carta of all men everywhere." (statement on adoption of Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948) / "Ich bin ein Berliner." (address at the Berlin Wall, 1963) / "I have a dream" (march on Washington for jobs and freedom, 1963) / "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice!" (acceptance speech/Republican National Convention, 1964) / "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, 1968) / "My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total." (House of Representatives on the impeachment of President Nixon, 1974) / "Let there be no more wars" (signing Egypt-Israeli peace treaty, 1979) / "There is despair, Mr. President, in the faces you don't see" (keynote address/Democratic National Convention, 1984) / "They...slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God." (Nobel acceptance speech, 1989) / "Enough of blood and tears. Enough." (signing of the Israeli-Palestinian Declaration of Principles -- Oslo II, 1993) / "The unique, the complex, the extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana" (Eulogy, 1997) / Days of infamy / Theodore Roosevelt -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Lou Gehrig -- Winston Churchill -- Douglas MacArthur -- Albert Einstein -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- John F. Kennedy -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Barry Goldwater -- Robert F. Kennedy as remembered by Edward M. Kennedy -- Barbara Jordan -- Anwar Sadat -- Mario Cuomo -- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet -- Yitzhak Rabin -- Princess Diana as remembered by Earl Spencer -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt and George W. Bush, 1941, 2001.

ISBN: 0735202966

LCCN: 2002030769

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Speeches, addresses, etc.--History and criticism.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Books with discs.

LC Class. No.: PN6122 / .G75 2002

Dewey Class. No.: 808.85