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The Public Speaking Bible; a Survival Guide for Standing on Stage (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 876 ratings — published
Confessions of a Public Speaker (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 5,140 ratings — published 2009
How To Deliver A TED Talk: Secrets Of The World's Most Inspiring Presentations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,909 ratings — published 2012
Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln: 21 Powerful Secrets of History's Greatest Speakers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,216 ratings — published 2002
Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 22,629 ratings — published
The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 7,514 ratings — published 2009
The Quick & Easy Way to Effective Speaking (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 11,012 ratings — published 1962
On the Ideal Orator (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 533 ratings — published -55
The Art of Public Speaking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 6,141 ratings — published 1915
The Art of Always Being Right (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.49 — 19,776 ratings — published 1831
Камасутра для оратора. 10 глав о том, как получать и доставлять максимальное удовольствие, выступая публично (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 382 ratings — published 2000
American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 45 ratings — published 2006
Institutes of Oratory (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.97 — 115 ratings — published 95
The Art of Rhetoric (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 7,211 ratings — published -322
Discourses 1–11 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 15 ratings — published 1932
Selected Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 3,718 ratings — published -43
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.71 — 1,042 ratings — published 1852
Everything is Negotiable: How to Get the Best Deal Every Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 1,534 ratings — published 1983
How We Decide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 41,880 ratings — published 2009
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 578,254 ratings — published 2012
Mistress of Herself: Speeches and Letters of Ernestine L. Rose, Early Women's Rights Leader (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 7 ratings — published 2008
The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Country (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.40 — 729 ratings — published 2008
Speeches and Writings 1832–1858 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 1,510 ratings — published 1968
On Invention. The Best Kind of Orator. Topics. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.52 — 50 ratings — published
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
An Organizer's Tale: Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 75 ratings — published 2008
In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 146 ratings — published 1999
The Ron Paul Revolution: Writings and Speeches of Congressman Ron Paul (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 25 ratings — published 2008
George Washington's Farewell Address (Books of American Wisdom)
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avg rating 4.48 — 735 ratings — published 1913
Great Speeches of the 20th Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 130 ratings — published 2010
We Rise: Speeches by Inspirational Black Women (Audiobook)
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avg rating 4.08 — 189 ratings — published 2010
The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 35 ratings — published 2013
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
Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and the Speech That Changed America (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 287 ratings — published 2004
John F. Kennedy: The Inaugural Address (Words That Changed America)
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avg rating 4.48 — 258 ratings — published 1961
Malcolm X: The Last Speeches (Malcolm X Speeches & Writings)
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avg rating 4.49 — 935 ratings — published 1989
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 42,808 ratings — published 1984
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.93 — 41 ratings — published 1988
Speaking to the People: The Rhetorical Presidency in Historical Perspective (Political Development of the American Nation: Studies in Politics and History)
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avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 1998
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 3.89 — 203 ratings — published
Selected Speeches: Original Live Recordings of RFK's Finest Speeches (Audio Cassette)
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avg rating 4.71 — 28 ratings — published 1993
Great Speeches by Native Americans (Dover Thrift Editions: Speeches/Quotations)
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avg rating 4.25 — 364 ratings — published 2000
Michelle Obama: Speeches by the First Lady (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.18 — 129 ratings — published 2012
Soapbox Rebellion: The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909-1916 (Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique)
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avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2013
The World's Great Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 159 ratings — published 1942
Great Scottish Speeches (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 9 ratings — published 2011
Poetics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 31,040 ratings — published -335
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 407,953 ratings — published 1980
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.88 — 149,280 ratings — published -19
Plato: Complete Works (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 12,205 ratings — published -347
“For some reason, the former President failed to rise to the response of the audience to his unconscious humor. He began a phrase modestly,
"When I was in Washington," being a euphemism for
"When I was President" and the audience burst into laughter. Afterwards, he said sadly to Mrs. Coolidge:
"They seemed to be in a strange mood. I never spoke to an audience which laughed before.""
Yet a few weeks later when an enthusiastic woman Republican gurgled at him:
"Oh, Mr. Coolidge, I enjoyed your speech so much that I stood up during the whole speech. I couldn't get a seat."
Quipped Coolidge: "So did I!”
― A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge
"When I was in Washington," being a euphemism for
"When I was President" and the audience burst into laughter. Afterwards, he said sadly to Mrs. Coolidge:
"They seemed to be in a strange mood. I never spoke to an audience which laughed before.""
Yet a few weeks later when an enthusiastic woman Republican gurgled at him:
"Oh, Mr. Coolidge, I enjoyed your speech so much that I stood up during the whole speech. I couldn't get a seat."
Quipped Coolidge: "So did I!”
― A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge
“The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.”
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