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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Elephant Poachers | |
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| Leftist Academe and the Erasure of Republican Remembrance | |
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| Abraham Lincoln | |
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| The First and Greatest | |
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| The Gettysburg Address | |
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| November 19, 1863, Battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania | |
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| Second Inaugural | |
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| March 4, 1865, U.S. Capitol | |
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| Washington, D.C | |
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| Theodore Roosevelt | |
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| The Rough-Riding Rhetorician | |
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| The Strenuous Life | |
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| April 10, 1899 | |
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| The Hamilton Club, Chicago, Illinois | |
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| The Man with the Muck-Rake | |
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| April 15, 1906 | |
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| Washington, D.C | |
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| William F. Buckley Jr | |
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| American Conservatism Finds Its Spokesman in the Speech That Wasn't | |
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| Yale Alumni Day Speech | |
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| February 1950 (Undelivered), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut | |
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
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| Strategic Speechifying | |
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| Atoms for Peace | |
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| December 8, 1953 | |
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| United Nations General Assembly, New York, New York" | |
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| Little Rock" | |
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| September 24, 1957, Oval Office | |
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| The White House Washington, D.C | |
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| Everett Dirksen | |
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| The Speech That Made the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Possible | |
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| "The Time Has Come" | |
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| June 10, 1964, U.S. Senate | |
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| Washington, D.C | |
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| Barry Goldwater | |
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| "You Know He's Right" | |
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| "Extremism in the Defense of Liberty Is No Vice" | |
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| July 16, 1964 | |
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| Republican National Convention, the Cow Palace, San Francisco, California | |
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| Richard M. Nixon | |
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| The Beginning of the End | |
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| "Checkers" | |
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| September 23, 1952, U.S. Capitol | |
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| Washington, D.C | |
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| Gerald R. Ford | |
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| "Our Long National Nightmare Is Over" | |
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| Oath of the U.S. Presidency | |
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| August 9, 1974, East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C | |
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| Ronald Reagan | |
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| A Shining Speaker on a Hill | |
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| "The Evil Empire" | |
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| March 8, 1983 | |
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| Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals, Orlando, Florida | |
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| Challenger | |
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| January 28, 1986 Oval Office | |
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| The White House, Washington, D.C | |
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| "Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall" | |
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| June 12, 1987 | |
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| Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany | |
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| Newt Gingrich | |
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| The Revolutionary Speaker | |
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| "The Contract with America" | |
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| January 4, 1995 | |
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| Inaugural Speech as Speaker of the House, U.S. House of Representatives | |
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| Washington, D.C | |
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| George W. Bush | |
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| His Mission and His Moment | |
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| "Justice Will Be Done" | |
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| September 20, 2001 | |
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| Joint Session of Congress, U.S. Capitol | |
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| Washington, D.C | |
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| John McCain | |
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| The Maverick and His Message | |
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| "A Disingenuous Filmmaker" | |
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| August 30, 2004 | |
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| Republican National Convention, Madison Square Garden, New York, New York | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |