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The Public Speaking Bible; a Survival Guide for Standing on Stage The Public Speaking Bible; a Survival Guide for Standing on Stage (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 877 ratings — published
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Confessions of a Public Speaker Confessions of a Public Speaker (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 5,138 ratings — published 2009
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How To Deliver A TED Talk: Secrets Of The World's Most Inspiring Presentations How To Deliver A TED Talk: Secrets Of The World's Most Inspiring Presentations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,884 ratings — published 2012
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Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln: 21 Powerful Secrets of History's Greatest Speakers Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln: 21 Powerful Secrets of History's Greatest Speakers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,207 ratings — published 2002
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Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 22,295 ratings — published
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The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 7,496 ratings — published 2009
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The Quick & Easy Way to Effective Speaking The Quick & Easy Way to Effective Speaking (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 10,940 ratings — published 1962
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On the Ideal Orator On the Ideal Orator (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 529 ratings — published -55
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The Art of Public Speaking The Art of Public Speaking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 6,089 ratings — published 1915
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The Art of Always Being Right The Art of Always Being Right (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 19,089 ratings — published 1831
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American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 45 ratings — published 2006
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Institutes of Oratory Institutes of Oratory (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.95 — 110 ratings — published 95
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The Art of Rhetoric The Art of Rhetoric (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 7,082 ratings — published -322
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Discourses 1–11 Discourses 1–11 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 15 ratings — published 1932
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Selected Works Selected Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 3,705 ratings — published -43
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What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.69 — 936 ratings — published 1852
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Everything is Negotiable: How to Get the Best Deal Every Time Everything is Negotiable: How to Get the Best Deal Every Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 1,525 ratings — published 1983
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How We Decide How We Decide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 41,786 ratings — published 2009
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 572,708 ratings — published 2012
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On Invention. The Best Kind of Orator. Topics. On Invention. The Best Kind of Orator. Topics. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.53 — 49 ratings — published
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Lincoln's Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion (Pivotal Moments in American History) Lincoln's Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion (Pivotal Moments in American History)
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avg rating 3.59 — 37 ratings — published 2015
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An Organizer's Tale: Speeches An Organizer's Tale: Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 77 ratings — published 2008
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In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 147 ratings — published 1999
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The Ron Paul Revolution: Writings and Speeches of Congressman Ron Paul The Ron Paul Revolution: Writings and Speeches of Congressman Ron Paul (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 25 ratings — published 2008
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George Washington's Farewell Address (Books of American Wisdom) George Washington's Farewell Address (Books of American Wisdom)
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avg rating 4.47 — 729 ratings — published 1913
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Great Speeches of the 20th Century Great Speeches of the 20th Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 127 ratings — published 2010
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We Rise: Speeches by Inspirational Black Women We Rise: Speeches by Inspirational Black Women (Audiobook)
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avg rating 4.08 — 184 ratings — published 2010
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The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 34 ratings — published 2013
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The Modern Scholar: Purpose and Persuasion: The Power of Rhetoric in American Political History The Modern Scholar: Purpose and Persuasion: The Power of Rhetoric in American Political History (Audiobook)
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avg rating 2.62 — 16 ratings — published 2012
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Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 286 ratings — published 2004
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John F. Kennedy: The Inaugural Address (Words That Changed America) John F. Kennedy: The Inaugural Address (Words That Changed America)
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avg rating 4.48 — 257 ratings — published 1961
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Malcolm X: The Last Speeches (Malcolm X Speeches & Writings) Malcolm X: The Last Speeches (Malcolm X Speeches & Writings)
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avg rating 4.49 — 932 ratings — published 1989
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 42,188 ratings — published 1984
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.93 — 41 ratings — published 1988
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When They Go Low, We Go High: Speeches that shape the world – and why we need them When They Go Low, We Go High: Speeches that shape the world – and why we need them (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.90 — 202 ratings — published
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Selected Speeches: Original Live Recordings of RFK's Finest Speeches Selected Speeches: Original Live Recordings of RFK's Finest Speeches (Audio Cassette)
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avg rating 4.71 — 28 ratings — published 1993
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Great Speeches by Native Americans (Dover Thrift Editions: Speeches/Quotations) Great Speeches by Native Americans (Dover Thrift Editions: Speeches/Quotations)
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avg rating 4.24 — 362 ratings — published 2000
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Michelle Obama: Speeches by the First Lady Michelle Obama: Speeches by the First Lady (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.17 — 127 ratings — published 2012
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The World's Great Speeches The World's Great Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 158 ratings — published 1942
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Great Scottish Speeches Great Scottish Speeches (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 9 ratings — published 2011
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Poetics Poetics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 30,523 ratings — published -335
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The Name of the Rose The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 403,315 ratings — published 1980
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The Aeneid The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.88 — 146,978 ratings — published -19
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Plato: Complete Works Plato: Complete Works (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 12,145 ratings — published -347
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Descubre el arte de hablar en público Descubre el arte de hablar en público (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.28 — 273 ratings — published
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The 6-Figure Speaker: The Ultimate Blueprint to Build a Business as a Highly-Paid Professional Speaker The 6-Figure Speaker: The Ultimate Blueprint to Build a Business as a Highly-Paid Professional Speaker (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.07 — 127 ratings — published
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Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink (ebook)
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avg rating 4.05 — 5,311 ratings — published 2017
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Agona Apell
“In the world of oratory, the cunning atheist declares himself a believer so as to preserve access to the rich fund of tales from religious texts and to powerful concepts like God, fate, angels, the soul, & the afterlife.”
Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock

Mary Renault
“He was the vilest speaker I ever heard: vulgar, ignorant, not seeking to teach his hearers, but rather to stir in men as vulgar as himself the irrational excesses to which such people are prone; a whore among orators. Yet, when he denounced the men who were putting the City in fear, there was a kind of flame in him. He was a man so ignoble that if he remembered anything of the nature of excellence, excellence, I should think it was only so that he could taunt someone with the lack of it. He lived in spite and hate. And now he only invoked the good in the name of hatred; yet for a moment nobility glanced back at him, and made him brave. It was like seeing some mangy cur, who for years has lived on scraps and filth about the market, raising his hackles at a pack of wolves.”
Mary Renault, The Last of the Wine

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