Great eulogies throughout history / edited by James Daley
- Published:
- Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., [2016]
- Physical Description:
- xii, 191 pages ; 21 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Daley, James, 1979-
- Series:
- Dover books on history, political and social sciences
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Funeral Oration / Pericles -- George Washington (1732--1799) / Henry Lee -- Alexander Hamilton (1755--1804) / Harrison G. Otis -- John Adams (1735-1826) and Thomas Jefferson (1743--1826) / Daniel Webster -- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770--1827) / Franz Grillparzer -- Daniel Webster (1782--1852) / Amasa McCoy -- Charlotte Bronte (1816--1855) / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Henry David Thoreau (1817--1862) / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Abraham Lincoln (1809--1865) / Frederick Douglass -- Voltaire (1694--1778) / Victor Hugo -- Ulysses S. Grant (1822--1885) / Henry Ward Beecher -- Emily Dickinson (1830--1886) / Susan Gilbert Dickinson -- Walt Whitman (1819--1892) / Robert Ingersoll -- Charles Tiffany (1812--1902) / Annabel Goan -- Susan B. Anthony (1820--1906) / Anna Howard Shaw -- Andrew Carnegie (1835--1919) / John H. Finley -- Albert Einstein (1879--1955) / Ernst Straus -- John F. Kennedy (1917--1963) / John W. McCormack -- T. S. Eliot (1888--1965) / Sir Rupert Hart-Davis -- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929--1968) / Benjamin E. Mays -- W. H. Auden (1907--1973) / Stephen Spender -- Anais Nin (1903--1977) / Henry Miller -- The Challenger Astronauts / Ronald Reagan -- Mickey Mantle (1931--1995) / Bob Costas -- Coretta Scott King (1927--2006) / Maya Angelou.
- Summary:
- "Great Eulogies Throughout History is a new compilation, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2016. James Daley has selected and arranged the eulogies and provided all the introductory material. Some selections in this book have been reprinted exactly as they were previously published in an effort to preserve the consistency of the original documents and their historical context, which may include archaic terminology and spelling"--Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN:
- 9780486805320
0486805328 - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references.
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