{"product_id":"strong-voices-fifteen-american-speeches-worth-knowing-9780062572042","title":"Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStrong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eis a collection of significant speeches, made both by those who held the reins of power and those who didn't, at significant times in American history. Read the original words--sometimes abridged and sometimes in their entirety--that have shaped our cultural fabric. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Chicago Public Library Best Book!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A wide-ranging collection of speeches and a worthwhile resource for students of American history.\" --\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A golden celebration of the multicultural voices who demand the U.S.--and the world--do better.\" --\u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"An important addition to American history collections.\" \u003c\/strong\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroductions by acclaimed writer Tonya Bolden provide historical context and critical insights to the meaning and impact of every speech. Illustrations by award-winning artist Eric Velasquez illuminate what it was really like at each moment in history. This collection includes the following: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePatrick Henry, \"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeorge Washington, Farewell Address\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRed Jacket, \"We Never Quarrel about Religion\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrederick Douglass, \"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSojourner Truth, \"I Am a Woman's Rights\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTheodore Roosevelt, \"Citizenship in a Republic\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFranklin Delano Roosevelt, \"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLou Gehrig, \"Farewell to Baseball\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLangston Hughes, \"On the Blacklist All Our Lives\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy, \"We Choose to Go to the Moon\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMartin Luther King, Jr., \"I Have a Dream\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFannie Lou Hamer, \"I Question America\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCesar Chavez, Address to the Commonwealth Club of California, 1984\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHillary Rodham Clinton, \"Women's Rights Are Human Rights\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStrong Voices\u003c\/em\u003e includes a foreword by \u003cem\u003e#1 New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author and celebrated journalist Cokie Roberts, as well as a timeline in the back of the book, along with letters to the reader from Tonya Bolden and Eric Velasquez. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStrong Voices\u003c\/em\u003e is a tremendous introduction to the extraordinary words spoken in history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBolden, Tonya:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTonya Bolden\u003c\/strong\u003e's books have earned much praise and numerous starred reviews. Her work has been recognized with the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children and the Carter G. Woodson Book Award and listed as a CBC\/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People. She is also the recipient of the Children's Book Guild of Washington, DC's Nonfiction Award for her body of work. Her \u003cem\u003eMaritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl \u003c\/em\u003ewas a Coretta Scott King Author Honor book. Visit her website at www.tonyaboldenbooks.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVelasquez, Eric:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEric Velasquez\u003c\/strong\u003e has illustrated numerous children's books, including \u003cem\u003eStrong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSchomburg: The Man Who Built a Library \u003c\/em\u003eby Carole Boston Weatherford. He won the Pura Belpr? 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