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"Settle down to ten decades of American history", writes Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin in her rousing Foreword to "In Our Own Words". What follows is the impassioned oratory of presidents and poets, artists and astronauts, soldiers and pacifists--one of the most comprehensive and diverse collections of American speeches ever assembled.

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"Settle down to ten decades of American history", writes Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin in her rousing Foreword to "In Our Own Words". What follows is the impassioned oratory of presidents and poets, artists and astronauts, soldiers and pacifists--one of the most comprehensive and diverse collections of American speeches ever assembled.

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