Product Description: The perfect gift for graduates – thirty commencement addresses about liberty, patriotism, tradition, and other conservative themes that are rarely heard on campus.The college graduation speech has become another casualty of our age of political correctness...read more

Commemorating the eightieth anniversary of Sacco and Vanzetti's execution- with a new cover and new foreword Electrocuted in 1927 for the murder of two guards in Massachusetts, the Italian- American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti defied the verdict against them, maintaining their innocence to the end. Whether they were guilty continues to be the subject of debate today. First published in 1928, Sacco and Vanzetti's letters represent one of the great personal documents of the twentieth century: a volume of primary source material as famous for the splendor of its impassioned prose as for the brilliant light it sheds on the characters of the two dedicated anarchists who became the focus of worldwide attention.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Product Description: Although the first proper Notre Dame commencement--conferring degrees on two candidates--took place in 1848, General William Tecumseh Sherman was Notre Dame's first graduation speaker with a truly national reputation. He attended Notre Dame's ceremony in 1865, just months after accepting the surrender of General Joseph E...read more

Product Description: OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG AND GAY by CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER and EMILY KIMBROUGH. CHAPTER 1: WE had been planning the trip for over a year. Pinching, scraping and going without sodas, we had salvaged from our allowances and the small time jobs we each had found the preceding vacation the sum of 80...read more

Commemorating the eightieth anniversary of Sacco and Vanzetti's execution- with a new cover and new foreword Electrocuted in 1927 for the murder of two guards in Massachusetts, the Italian- American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti defied the verdict against them, maintaining their innocence to the end. Whether they were guilty continues to be the subject of debate today. First published in 1928, Sacco and Vanzetti's letters represent one of the great personal documents of the twentieth century: a volume of primary source material as famous for the splendor of its impassioned prose as for the brilliant light it sheds on the characters of the two dedicated anarchists who became the focus of worldwide attention.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

A collection of some of the past decade's most influential and inspirational graduation speeches and commencement addresses includes such pieces as Christopher Reeve's thoughts about the importance of taking action, Billy Joel's recommendations for overcoming obstacles, and Will Ferrell's take on surviving in today's haphazard world. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Compiles poignant, irreverent, and humorous baccalaureate speeches made by such speakers as Bill Cosby, Seamus Heaney, Madeleine Albright, Salman Rushdie, Sting, Al Franken, and Edward Albee.

A collection of notable commencement speeches covers a range of fields from politics to sports and includes the words of such diverse figures as General Colin Powell, Dr. Seuss, Billy Joel, Jonas Salk, Wilma Mankiller, and Gloria Steinem.

Offers an inspirational collection of twenty commencement speeches from an array of celebrated figures, including Dr. Seuss, Carl Sagan, and Gloria Steinem. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Compiles baccalaureate speeches made by such inspirational speakers as Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, the Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachov, Ted Koppel, and Stephen Breyer. (view table of contents)

Collects excerpts from 250 of the best commencement speeches over the last twenty-five years that offer wise advice and humorous anecdotes from noted figures such as Oprah Winfrey, Toni Morrison, and Kermit the Frog. (view table of contents)

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Provides examples of speeches given at college graduation ceremonies by political figures, authors, entertainers, athletes, and other prominent contemporary Americans, as well as noteworthy earlier speakers (view table of contents)

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