{"product_id":"strong-voices-fifteen-american-speeches-worth-knowing-book-tonya-bolden-9780062572059","title":"Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing","description":"\u003cp\u003eStrong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing is a collection of significant speeches, made both by those who held the reins of power and those who didn't, at significant times in American history. Read the original words--sometimes abridged and sometimes in their entirety--that have shaped our cultural fabric. A Chicago Public Library Best Book!\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A wide-ranging collection of speeches and a worthwhile resource for students of American history.\" --Booklist\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A golden celebration of the multicultural voices who demand the U.S.--and the world--do better.\" --Kirkus\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An important addition to American history collections.\" --School Library Journal\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroductions by acclaimed writer Tonya Bolden provide historical context and critical insights to the meaning and impact of every speech. Illustrations by award-winning artist Eric Velasquez illuminate what it was really like at each moment in history. This collection includes the following:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ePatrick Henry, \"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death\"\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eGeorge Washington, Farewell Address\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRed Jacket, \"We Never Quarrel about Religion\"\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFrederick Douglass, \"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?\"\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSojourner Truth, \"I Am a Woman's Rights\"\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAbraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTheodore Roosevelt, \"Citizenship in a Republic\"\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFranklin Delano Roosevelt, \"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself\"\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLou Gehrig, \"Farewell to Baseball\"\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLangston Hughes, \"On the Blacklist All Our Lives\"\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy, \"We Choose to Go to the Moon\"\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMartin Luther King, Jr., \"I Have a Dream\"\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFannie Lou Hamer, \"I Question America\"\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCesar Chavez, Address to the Commonwealth Club of California, 1984\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHillary Rodham Clinton, \"Women's Rights Are Human Rights\"\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eStrong Voices includes a foreword by #1 New York Times bestselling author and celebrated journalist Cokie Roberts, as well as a timeline in the back of the book, along with letters to the reader from Tonya Bolden and Eric Velasquez.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStrong Voices is a tremendous introduction to the extraordinary words spoken in history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50106481115409,"sku":"CIN0062572059G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51544360091921,"sku":"NIN9780062572059","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51882333929745,"sku":"GOR014443652","price":10.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0062572059.jpg?v=1750972985","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/products\/strong-voices-buch-tonya-bolden-9780062572059","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}