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Selected American speeches on basic issues, 1850-1950,

Author: Carl G Brandt; Edward Merl Shafter
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin [1960]
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Brandt, Carl G.
Selected American speeches on basic issues, 1850-1950.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin [1960]
(OCoLC)609487680
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Carl G Brandt; Edward Merl Shafter
OCLC Number: 421368
Description: 426 p. 21 cm.
Contents: pt. 1. Time of civil strife: slavery and states' rights: Henry Clay: Compromise Speech of 1850 --
John C. Calhoun: Compromise Speech of 1850 --
Daniel Webster: Compromise Speech of 1850 --
Stephen A. Douglas: The Kansas-Nebraska Bill --
Abraham Lincoln: The Cooper Institute Address --
Henry W. Grady: The race problem in the South --
pt. 2. The dawn of the twentieth century: American nationalism and expansion: William Jennings Bryan: The Cross of Gold Speech --
Robert G. Ingersoll: The Chicago and New York Gold Speech --
Albert J. Beveridge: The Star of Empire --
Carl Schurz: The policy of imperialism --
Theodore Roosevelt: The man with the muck rake --
pt. 3. World Wars I and II: crises and controversies: Woodrow Wilson: "Too Proud to Fight" Speech: war message --
Robert M. LaFollette: Against war with Germany --
William Howard Taft: For the League of Nations --
Henry Cabot Lodge: Against the Constitution of the League of Nations --
William E. Borah: Against the League of Nations --
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A plea for neutrality: America's answer to Japan's challenge.
Responsibility: edited by Carl G. Brandt and Edward M. Shafter, Jr.

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