"Each speech is accompanied by a biography of the speaker, a concise introduction setting it in historical context, and brief account of its impact and consequences."

Includes index.

Éamon de Valera -- Winston Churchill -- George Marshall -- Jawaharlal Nehru -- David Ben-Gurion -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Douglas MacArthur -- Nikita Khrushchev -- Aneurin Bevan -- Mao Zedong -- Harold Macmillan -- John F. Kennedy -- John F. Kennedy -- John F. Kennedy -- Charles de Gaulle -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Harold Wilson -- Nelson Mandela -- Barry Goldwater -- Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Julius Nyerere -- Gamal Abdel Nasser -- Richard Nixon -- Richard Nixon -- Pierre Trudeau -- Neil Kinnock -- Ronald Reagan -- Mario Cuomo -- Jesse Jackson -- Richard von Weizsäcker -- Margaret Thatcher -- Mikhail Gorbachev -- Nelson Mandela -- Seamus Heaney -- Fidel Castro -- Anita Roddick -- Tony Blair -- Orhan Pamuk -- Kevin Rudd -- Barack Obama.