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Give Me Liberty: Speakers and Speeches That Have Shaped America
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Give Me Liberty: Speakers and Speeches That Have Shaped America Hardback - 2014 - 1st Edition

by Christopher L. Webber

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Sure to become a classic of American oratorical history, Give Me Liberty reveals the enduring power of America's quest for a freer and more just society, and the context of the speeches and speakers?from Daniel Webster and Patrick Henry to Martin Luther King and Ronald Reagan?that gave voice to the struggle.

"Give me liberty," demanded Patrick Henry, "or give me death!" Henry's words continue to echo in American history and that quote, and the speech it comes from, remains one of the two or three known to almost every American. The other speeches that have become part of our American collective consciousness all have one theme in common: liberty. These feats of oration seem to trace the evolution of America's definition of liberty, and who it applies to, but what exactly is liberty? It is a term open to a broad range of opinion, and questions of freedom arise daily in the news and in everyday life. Perhaps uniquely among the nations of the world, the United States traces its origins to groups and individuals who came specifically to create something new. Webber's insightful Give Me Liberty looks at these great speeches and provides the historical context, focusing attention on particular individuals who summed up the issues of their own day in words that have never been forgotten, gleaning lessons from the past centuries that will allow us to continue to strive for the ideals of liberty in the 21st century.

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  • Title Give Me Liberty: Speakers and Speeches That Have Shaped America
  • Author Christopher L. Webber
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 419
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Pegasus Books
  • Publication date 2014-10
  • ISBN 9781605986333 / 160598633X
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.6 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 4.06 cm)
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects Speeches, addresses, etc., American, Liberty
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.510

About the author

Christopher Webber is the author of more than two dozen books, including Reinventing Marriage and Beyond Beowulf. A graduate of Princeton University and a priest of the Episcopal Church, Webber has served parishes in New York and Connecticut and has also written several hymns. His interest in James W. C. Pennington developed while compiling A Yearbook of American Saints. Webber lives with his wife on an old farm in northwestern Connecticut.

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