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Title:
21 speeches that shaped our world : the people and ideas that changed the way we think / Chris Abbott.
Author:
Abbott, Chris.
Publication Information:
London, [England] : Rider, 2012.
Call Number:
PN6122 .A33 2012
Edition:
Pbk. ed.
ISBN:
9781846042720
Physical Description:
xiii, 322 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
General Note:
Original ed.: 2010.
Contents:
All the world is human. Freedom or death / Emmeline Pankhurst -- I have a dream / Martin Luther King -- Rivers of blood / Enoch Powell -- A second chance / Napoleon Beazley -- Apology to the stolen generations / Kevin Rudd -- You're either with us or against us. A world split apart / Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -- Ash heap of history / Ronald Reagan -- Our war on terror / George Bush -- Your security is in your own hands / Osama bin Laden -- The case for climate security / Margaret Beckett -- Might is right. We shall fight on the beaches / Winston Churchill -- This dark and bitter moment / Salvador Allende -- The Falklands factor / Margaret Thatcher -- Doctrine of the international community / Tony Blair -- The mark of Cain / Tim Collins -- Give peace a chance. Let no one commit a wrong in anger / Mohandas Gandhi -- The military-industrial complex / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- With a heavy heart / Robin Cook -- This is Anthony / Marie Fatayi-Williams -- A new beginning / Barack Obama.
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