{"product_id":"voices-of-history-isbn-9781984898180","title":"Voices of History","description":"\u003cb\u003eA celebration of the great speeches of world history and cultural life. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore takes us on a journey from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Some speeches are heroic and inspiring; some diabolical and atrocious. Some are exquisite and poignant; others cruel and chilling. The speakers themselves vary from empresses and conquerors to rock stars, novelists and sportsmen, dreamers and killers, from Churchill and Elizabeth I to Stalin and Genghis Khan, and from Michelle Obama and Cleopatra to Ronald Reagan, Nehru, and Muhammad Ali.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll human drama is here: from the carnage of battlefields to the theatre of courtrooms, from table talk to audiences of millions, from desperate last stands to orations of triumph, from noble calls for liberation to genocidal rants, from foolish delusions and strange confessions to defiant resistance and heartbreaking farewells. \u003ci\u003eVoices of History\u003c\/i\u003e spans centuries, continents, and cultures. In the accessible and gripping style of a master storyteller, Montefiore shows why these seventy speeches are essential reading and how they enlighten our past, enrich our present, and inspire--as well as hold warnings for--our future.\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eResistance\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Boudicca, “This is a woman’s resolve,” AD 61 \u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth I, “The heart and stomach of a king,” 8 August 1588\u003cbr\u003eJohn Boyega, “Black lives have always mattered,” 3 June 2020 \u003cbr\u003e Eleazar Ben Yair, “Let us die before we become slaves,” AD 73 \u003cbr\u003e Winston Churchill, “Blood, toil, tears and sweat,”13 May 1940 \u003cbr\u003e Emmeline Pankhurst, “I am here as a soldier,” 13 November 1913 \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eDreamers\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Martin Luther King, Jr, “I have a dream,” 28 August 1963 \u003cbr\u003e Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a woman?” 1863 version\u003cbr\u003e Muhammad Ali, “Wait till you see Muhammad Ali,” 30 October 1974\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eFreedom\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Simón Bolívar, “We are not Europeans; we are not Indians; we are but a mixed species,” \u003cbr\u003e    15 February 1819 \u003cbr\u003e Toussaint Louverture, “I want liberty and equality to reign,” 29 August 1793 \u003cbr\u003e Jawaharlal Nehru, “At the stroke of the midnight hour,” 14 August 1947\u003cbr\u003e Nelson Mandela, “Rainbow nation,” 10 May 1994 \u003cbr\u003e Winston Churchill, “We shall fight on the beaches,” 4 June 1940 \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eRise and Fall\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Muawiyah, “When they pull, I loosen,” 7th century AD\u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth I, “I have reigned with your loves,” 30 November 1601 \u003cbr\u003e Winston Churchill, “This was their finest hour,” 18 June 1940 \u003cbr\u003e Barack Obama, “America is a place where all things are possible,” 4 November 2008 \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eDecency\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Abraham Lincoln, “Until every drop of blood drawn by the lash shall be paid by another drawn with\u003cbr\u003e     the sword,” 4 March 1865\u003cbr\u003e John F. Kennedy, “Ask not what your country can do for you,” 20 January 1961 \u003cbr\u003e Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “The ability of human beings to make and remake themselves for the\u003cbr\u003e      better,” December 2012 \u003cbr\u003e Malala Yousafzai, “One pen and one book can change the world,” 12 July 2013 \u003cbr\u003e Mohandas Gandhi, “I have faith in the righteousness of our cause,” 11 March 1930\u003cbr\u003e Susan B. Anthony, “Are women persons?” February–June 1873\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth II, “We will be with our friends; we will be with our families; we will meet again,” 5 April\u003cbr\u003e      2020      \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eBattlefields\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e George S. Patton, Jr, “I am personally going to shoot that paper-hanging sonofabitch Hitler,” 5\u003cbr\u003e    June 1944 \u003cbr\u003e Alexander the Great, “You have Alexander,” November 333 BC\u003cbr\u003e George W. Bush, “Today, our nation saw evil,” 11 September 2001 \u003cbr\u003e Tim Collins, “Tread lightly there,” 19 March 2003 \u003cbr\u003e Franklin D. Roosevelt, “A date which will live in infamy,” 8 December 1941 \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eDefiance\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Cleopatra, “I will not be triumphed over,” 30 BC\u003cbr\u003e Oliver Cromwell, “In the name of God, go!” 20 April 1653\u003cbr\u003e Ronald Reagan, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” 12 June 1987 \u003cbr\u003e Winston Churchill, “The Few,” 20 August 1940 \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eTerror\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAl-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, “By God I’ll grind you down to dust,” Kufa, Iraq, AD 694 \u003cbr\u003e Nikolai Yezhov, Josef Stalin and others, “These swine must be strangled,” 4 December 1936\u003cbr\u003e Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, “Declare the Caliphate,” 29 June 2014\u003cbr\u003e Genghis Khan, “The greatest pleasure,” 13th century\u003cbr\u003e Osama bin Laden, “America is struck,” 7 October 2001 \u003cbr\u003e Maximilien Robespierre, “Virtue and terror,” 5 February 1794\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eTrials\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Socrates, “The unexamined life is not worth living,” 399 BC\u003cbr\u003e Nikolai Yezhov, “Shoot me quietly,” 3 February 1940 \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eFollies\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Richard Nixon, “No whitewash at the White House,” 30 April 1973\u003cbr\u003e Neville Chamberlain, “Peace for our time,” 30 September 1938\u003cbr\u003e Adolf Hitler, “I am at the head of the strongest army in the world,” 11 December 1941\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePower\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Theodora, “Imperial purple is the noblest burial sheet,” AD 532\u003cbr\u003e Josef Stalin, “We need new blood,” 16 October 1952 \u003cbr\u003e Abraham Lincoln, “Government of the people, by the people, for the people,” 19 November 1863 \u003cbr\u003e Donald Trump, “Make America great again,” 16 June 2015\u003cbr\u003e Aung San Suu Kyi, “It is not power that corrupts, but fear,” July 1991\u003cbr\u003e Xi Jinping, “History is our best teacher,” 14 May 2017\u003cbr\u003eKamala Harris and Joe Biden, “While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last,”\u003cbr\u003e     7 November 2020     \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeacemakers\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Anwar al-Sadat, “I have come to Jerusalem, as the City of Peace,” 20 November 1977\u003cbr\u003e Yitzhak Rabin, “Enough of blood and tears,” 13 September 1993 \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eRevolution\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Georges Danton, “Dare, dare again, always dare!” 2 September 1792 \u003cbr\u003e Mao Zedong, “The Chinese people have stood up!” 21 September 1949 \u003cbr\u003e Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, “Power to the Soviets,” September 1917\u003cbr\u003e Ruhollah Khomeini, “I shall smash this government in the teeth,” February 1979 \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eWarmongers\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Urban II, “Enter upon the road to the Holy Sepulchre,” 27 November 1095\u003cbr\u003e Cato the Elder, “Carthage must be destroyed!” 149 BC \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGenocide\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Adolf Hitler, “The annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe,” 30 January 1939 \u003cbr\u003e Heinrich Himmler, “The Jewish people are going to be exterminated,” 4 October 1943\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eGood vs Evil\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Elie Wiesel, “The perils of indifference,” 12 April 1999\u003cbr\u003e Boris Yeltsin, “We are all guilty,” 18 July 1998 \u003cbr\u003e Chaim Herzog, “Hate, ignorance and evil,” 10 November 1975 \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eProphets\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Moses, “Thou shall not kill,” Exodus 20, Verses 1–26\u003cbr\u003e Jesus of Nazareth, “Blessed are the poor in spirit,” Sermon on the Mount, St. Matthew’s Gospel,\u003cbr\u003e     1st century AD\u003cbr\u003e The Prophet Mohammed, “Turn then your face towards the Sacred Mosque,” from the Surah \u003cbr\u003e     al-Baqarah (“The Cow”), Verse 2 (144–50), 7th century AD\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eWarnings\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e J. Robert Oppenheimer, “We are not only scientists; we are men, too,” 2 November 1945\u003cbr\u003e Greta Thunberg, “We can’t solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis,” 3 December 2018 \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eGoodbyes\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eva Perón, “Remain faithful to Perón,” 17 October 1951\u003cbr\u003e Martin Luther King, Jr, “I’ve seen the promised land,” 3 April 1968\u003cbr\u003eAttila the Hun, funeral address by his henchman, “Lord of the bravest tribes . . . fell neither by an\u003cbr\u003e    enemy’s blow nor by treachery, but . . . rejoicing,” AD 453 \u003cbr\u003e Richard Nixon, “Nobody will ever write a book about my mother,” 9 August 1974 \u003cbr\u003e William Pitt the Younger, “Europe is not to be saved by any single man,” 9 November 1805 \u003cbr\u003e Nero, “What an artist the world is losing in me,” 9 June 68 AD\u003cbr\u003e Barack Obama, “We do these things because of who we are,” 1 May 2011\u003cbr\u003e Napoleon Bonaparte, “Soldiers of my Old Guard: I bid you farewell,” 20 April 1814\u003cbr\u003eEdward VIII, “The woman I love,” 11 December 1936 \u003cbr\u003e Alexander the Great, “Depart!” August 324 BC\u003cbr\u003e Charles I, “I go from a corruptible to an incorruptible crown,” 30 January 1649 \u003cbr\u003e Ronald Reagan, “Nothing ends here; our hopes and our journeys continue,” 28 January 1986\u003cb\u003eSIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian of Russia and the Middle East. \u003ci\u003eCatherine the Great and Potemkin\u003c\/i\u003e was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. \u003ci\u003eStalin: The Court of the Red Tsar\u003c\/i\u003e won the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards. \u003ci\u003eYoung Stalin\u003c\/i\u003e won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the Costa Biography Award, and le Grande Prix de la biographie politique. \u003ci\u003eJerusalem: The Biography\u003c\/i\u003e was a worldwide best seller. Montefiore’s books are published in more than forty languages. He is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eSashenka\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOne Night in Winter,\u003c\/i\u003e which won the Paddy Power Political Fiction Book of the Year Award in 2014. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Montefiore graduated from Cambridge University, where he received his PhD. He lives in London.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303328796901,"sku":"NP9781984898180","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781984898180.jpg?v=1767743515","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/voices-of-history-isbn-9781984898180","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}