This is a general anthology of speeches. They range from the Sermon on the Mount to Kennedy's Ask not what speech, from the Gettysburg Address to Winston Churchill's war speeches, and from Adolf Hitler to Martin Luther
Brian MacArthur Book order (chronological)


- 1999
- 1995
The Penguin Book of Historical Speeches
- 528 pages
- 19 hours of reading
A companion volume to the "Penguin Book of 20th Century Speeches". It goes further back, to the pre-modern speeches: Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Robespierre, Gladstone's Midlothian Campaign, Nelson at Trafalgar and the classical orators.