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History's Great Speeches: The Definitive Collection: 161 speeches from Athens 431BCE to Beijing, 1926 by 62 orators in 40h
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History's Great Speeches: The Definitive Collection: 161 speeches from Athens 431BCE to Beijing, 1926 by 62 orators in 40h

Author:
Mao Tse-Tung/Zedong (毛泽东) , Mahatma Gandhi , Jose Rizal , Sun Yat-sen , William C. Owen , Ricardo Flores Magón , Louis Lingg , William Morris , Annie Besant , Léon Gambetta , Susan B. Anthony , Wendell Phillips , Alexander Martin Sullivan , Lajos Kossuth , Maximilien Robespierre , William Wilberforce , John Philpot Curran , Patrick Henry , William Pitt the Elder , Philip Melanchthon , Giovanni Pico della Mirandola , Mark Antony , Cato the Younger , Marcus Tullius Cicero , Gaius Memmius , Gaius Marius , Pierre-Joseph Proudhon , Peter Kropotkin , Otto von Bismarck , Mikhail Bakunin , Mark Twain , John Calvin , Huldrych Zwingli , Girolamo Savonarola , George Graham Vest , Emilio Castelar , Edward Carpenter , Edmund Burke , Albert Apponyi , Abraham Lincoln , John Milton , Napoleon Bonaparte , Muhammad , Red Jacket , Daniel O'Connell , Dinarchus , Catiline , Eduard Bernstein , Eugene V. Debs , Chief Joseph , William Lloyd Garrison , Frederick Douglass , Robert Emmet , Julius Caesar , Pericles , George Washington , Martin Luther , Pope Urban II , Alexander the Great , Elizabeth I , Demosthenes , Swami Vivekananda
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Charles Featherstone
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August 12, 2025
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Embark on a journey through 2,400 years of history with this definitive collection of 161 of the world’s greatest speeches. Presented chronologically, this master volume spans from the golden age of Athens in 431BCE to the dawn of a new China in 1926, now complete with seminal speeches from India’s Mohandas Gandhi and China’s Mao Tse-Tung.

The collection begins with Demosthenes, whose rhetorical mastery forms the DNA of modern expression. Witness the high point of the Athenian empire with Pericles’ funeral oration and hear the only known speech of Julius Caesar before the Roman senate. Delve into the Roman Civil War, dominated by the rivalry between the revolutionary Cataline and the great statesman Cicero, and feel the power of Mark Antony’s oration over Caesar’s body.

After a millennium where rhetoric waned, the art is reborn with Mirandola’s 'Oration on the Dignity of Man,' firing the starting pistol for the Renaissance. The Reformation erupts with Martin Luther’s barnstorming 95 Theses, while the Enlightenment gives way to political upheaval. Hear Maximillien Robespierre’s chilling justifications for terror, Patrick Henry’s cry for liberty, and Napoleon Bonaparte’s revolutionary addresses.

Explore the great debates of the 19th century: the struggle against slavery, the rise of anarchism with Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Otto von Bismarck’s “Blood and Iron” forging a new nation, and Abraham Lincoln’s immortal words. Witness the birth of socialism, the powerful anti-war arguments of Eugene Debs, and Swami Vivekananda’s address bridging East and West.

This complete volume concludes with visionary speakers from Mexico, the Philippines, India, and China, whose words shaped the modern world and continue to resonate into the twenty-first century.
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History's Great Speeches: The Definitive Collection: 161 speeches from Athens 431BCE to Beijing, 1926 by 62 orators in 40h

History's Great Speeches: The Definitive Collection: 161 speeches from Athens 431BCE to Beijing, 1926 by 62 orators in 40h

Author: Mao Tse-Tung/Zedong (毛泽东)
Read by: Charles Featherstone
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