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An indispensable source of advice and inspiration for aspiring writers, this anthology features observations on the craft of creating fiction, by classic and contemporary authors. A literary feast of artistic practices and philosophies, its absorbing essays offer a vast array of personal reflections, suggestions, and critiques.Featured writers include Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Kate Chopin, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Jack London presents «Advice for Aspiring Writers,» Sinclair Lewis recounts «How I Wrote a Novel on the Train and Beside the Kitchen Sink,» and Kurt Vonnegut offers tips on «How to Write with Style.» Mark Twain provides a guided tour of «My Literary Shipyard,» Eudora Welty discusses the shaping of «Words into Fiction,» and John Irving addresses the difficulties of «Getting Started.» Other contributors include Willa Cather, Raymond Chandler, Wallace Stegner, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, and Margaret Atwood.

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The President's inaugural address reflects the current state of the nation and offers insights into the coming administration. This collection features the voices of twenty Chief Executives, from George Washington's 1789 oration to the 2009 speech by Barack Obama. Highlights include John F. Kennedy's exhortation to «Ask not what your country can do for you,» Franklin D. Roosevelt's assertion that «the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,» and Abraham Lincoln's wartime vision of «a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.»An ideal resource for students of political science and American history, this compendium of stirring speeches will inspire readers of every political persuasion.

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Tracing the struggle for freedom and civil rights across two centuries, this anthology comprises speeches by Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other influential figures in the history of African-American culture and politics.The collection begins with Henry Highland Garnet's 1843 «An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America,» followed by Jermain Wesley Loguen's «I Am a Fugitive Slave,» the famous «Ain't I a Woman?» speech by Sojourner Truth, and Frederick Douglass's immortal «What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?» Subsequent orators include John Sweat Rock, John M. Langston, James T. Rapier, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Francis J. Grimké, Marcus Garvey, and Mary McLeod Bethune. Martin Luther King, Jr.,'s «I Have a Dream» speech appears here, along with Malcolm X's «The Ballot or The Bullet,» Shirley Chisholm's «The Black Woman in Contemporary America,» «The Constitution: A Living Document» by Thurgood Marshall, and Barack Obama's «Knox College Commencement Address.»

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From civil rights to the right to vote, women have spoken up and spoken out throughout American history. Brimming with great power and eloquence, here are twenty-one legendary speeches from the country's most inspirational female voices, including Jane Addams, Emma Goldman, and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Spanning the centuries from 1851 to 2007, these are the rousing words that continue to endure in our nation's consciousness.This distinguished collection includes these American women and their speeches: Sojourner Truth, «Ain’t I a Woman?» 1851; Susan B. Anthony, «On Behalf of the Woman Suffrage Amendment,» 1880; Margaret Sanger, «A Moral Necessity of Birth Control,» 1921; Mary McLeod Bethune, «A Century of Progress of Negro Women,» 1933; Eleanor Roosevelt, «On the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,» 1948; Shirley Chisholm, «People and Peace, Not Profits and War,» 1969; Geraldine Ferraro, «Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address,» 1984; Gloria Steinem, «A Twenty-First Century Feminism,» 2002; Nancy Pelosi, «Speech Upon Her Election as Speaker of the House,» 2007, and many more unforgettable speeches by spirited and influential American women.

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