A historian and former presidential speechwriter presents an unprecedented two-volume collection of the greatest speeches in American history.

Oratory emerged as the first major form of verbal art in early America because, as John Quincy Adams observed in 1805, "eloquence was POWER." In this book, Sand

An anthology comprising 150-plus selections, making accessible the orations of both well-known and lesser-known African Americans. Each speech is presented with

First systematic critique of the rhetoric of 21 presidents focusing on the nexus of oratory and politics.