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Speechwriting Books
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The Political Speechwriter's Companion: A Guide for Writers and Speakers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.41 — 105 ratings — published 2009
White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as speechwriting)
avg rating 3.90 — 247 ratings — published 2008
Let the Word Go Forth: The Speeches, Statements, and Writings of John F. Kennedy 1947 to 1963 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as speechwriting)
avg rating 4.52 — 87 ratings — published 1988
Speechwright: An Insider's Take on Political Rhetoric (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as speechwriting)
avg rating 3.57 — 14 ratings — published 2011
POTUS Speaks: Finding the Words That Defined the Clinton Presidency (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 40 ratings — published 2000
On Speaking Well: How to Give a Speech With Style, Substance, and Clarity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 629 ratings — published 1998
This Day in Business History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2005
Condemned to Repeat It: The Philosopher Who Flunked Life and Other Great Lessons from History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 31 ratings — published 1998
The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 826 ratings — published 1937
Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 509 ratings — published 1992
Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 5,571 ratings — published 2010
The Backchannel: How Audiences Are Using Twitter and Social Media and Changing Presentations Forever (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.53 — 32 ratings — published 2009
COUNSELOR: A Life at the Edge of History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,198 ratings — published 2008
Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as speechwriting)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,505 ratings — published 2006
Platforms, Power, and Politics: An Introduction to Political Communication in the Digital Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as speechwriting)
avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published
Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.56 — 7,240 ratings — published 2007
Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate More Effectively in the Real World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as speechwriting)
avg rating 3.88 — 999 ratings — published
A Wordsmith's Work (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.00 — 9 ratings — published
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 3,722 ratings — published 2023
The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as speechwriting)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,283 ratings — published 2022
Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 897 ratings — published
Speeches for Leaders: Leave Audiences Wanting More (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as speechwriting)
avg rating 3.50 — 12 ratings — published 2015
10 Steps to Writing a Vital Speech: The Definitive Guide to Professional Speechwriting (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as speechwriting)
avg rating 4.18 — 11 ratings — published 2011
Speechwriting: The Expert Guide (Hale Expert Guides)
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avg rating 4.37 — 57 ratings — published 2010
Speaking While Female: 75 Extraordinary Speeches by American Women (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 16 ratings — published
Find Your Red Thread: Make Your Big Ideas Irresistible (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as speechwriting)
avg rating 4.18 — 237 ratings — published
The Rhetorical Act: Thinking, Speaking and Writing Critically (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as speechwriting)
avg rating 3.58 — 12 ratings — published 1995
Readings from Classical Rhetoric (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as speechwriting)
avg rating 3.15 — 20 ratings — published 1990
Doing Rhetorical History: Concepts and Cases (Studies in Rhetoric and Communication)
by (shelved 1 time as speechwriting)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 1998
Reading Rhetorical Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as speechwriting)
avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 1999
Interpersonal Communication (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.48 — 29 ratings — published 1987
History of the Idea of Progress (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 69 ratings — published 1980
Rhetoric as Philosophy: The Humanist Tradition (Rhetorical Philosophy & Theory)
by (shelved 1 time as speechwriting)
avg rating 3.70 — 27 ratings — published 1990
A Grammar of Motives (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 210 ratings — published 1969
A Rhetoric of Motives (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 340 ratings — published 1969
Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 149 ratings — published 1966
Selections from the Prison Notebooks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 5,224 ratings — published 1947
Language Is Sermonic: Richard M. Weaver on the Nature of Rhetoric (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as speechwriting)
avg rating 4.24 — 34 ratings — published 1970
Gorgias and Rhetoric (Focus Philosophical Library)
by (shelved 1 time as speechwriting)
avg rating 3.99 — 122 ratings — published 2008
Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln: 21 Powerful Secrets of History's Greatest Speakers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as speechwriting)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,141 ratings — published 2002
Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as speechwriting)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,311 ratings — published 2017
10 Steps to Writing a Vital Speech (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.80 — 5 ratings — published 2012
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 37,141 ratings — published 1985
What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as speechwriting)
avg rating 3.91 — 843 ratings — published 1990
Rhetorical Devices: A Handbook and Activities for Student Writers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as speechwriting)
avg rating 3.86 — 107 ratings — published 2010
Writing with clarity and style: a guide to rhetorical devices for contemporary writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as speechwriting)
avg rating 4.43 — 60 ratings — published 2002
An Organizer's Tale: Speeches (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 77 ratings — published 2008
A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories, and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as speechwriting)
avg rating 4.27 — 324 ratings — published 2003
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 8,565 ratings — published 1992
Give Your Speech, Change the World: How To Move Your Audience to Action (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 111 ratings — published 2005
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.”
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