Voices of History: Speeches That Changed the World is a great book to have somewhere you can easily dip into it. The first two speeches are by Jesus and Mohammed; the last two by President Putin and Malala Yousafzai. There’s plenty in between, but most of them are from the 20th century. There are baddies here—Lenin, Stalin, Hitler—as well as goodies. Each speech comes with a short biography of the speaker and a useful introduction to the speech’s historical context.
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