Greay Islam Speeches

The timbre of FDR's voice as he addressed Congress on December 8, 1941, is chillingly immediate when heard on this CD-ROM that contains more than 400 notable speeches in text, two hours of original audio, and 30 minutes of video clips. History-making political and spiritual speeches range over time from 1250 BC (Moses) to 1994 (Mandela), and in substance from Nixon's "Checkers Speech" and Pericles's funeral oration to Edward VIII's abdication and Lou Gehrig's farewell to baseball. More than 100 comprehensive biographies (with pictures) help to put the speeches in context. Easy to use and heavily cross-referenced, this program is indexed in five ways (country, date, category, author, and title) and has a keyword search option. Grades 7 and up. Social Studies School Service. c1995.

This is the fifteenth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline.