Part 4 is about converting speech ideas into powerful delivery. I found this section a great summary of rhetorical technique. Part 3 looks at using some simple but powerful rhetorical techniques – alliteration, repetition, lists of 3, contrasts and analogies that can be clumsy in written communication, but multiply your impact when public speaking.
Max is on a mission to break the cult of presenters that read their 100-slide powerpoints to the audience.
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Part 2 looks at how to use visual aids in a manner that is effective for the audience – not as an aide-memoir for the speaker. One area that Max discusses in depth is how “umms” and “ahhs” serve a purpose in conversation, but reduce greatly your power as a public speaker. As we grow we have each gained plenty of experience in conversations, but we need to leave some of the conventions of conversation behind in order to become compelling public speakers. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Part 1 explains that public speaking is a format of communication that is quite different from everyday conversation. And several of the speeches he includes deal with politics only indirectly: such as Louis Pasteur’s paean to scientific education, the Dalai Lama’s sermon on the "Philosophy of Compassion" and Salman Rushdie’s description of a life "Trapped inside a Metaphor." This is an invaluable reference for writers and speakers, students of history and those who simply appreciate great oratory.Ĭopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Robert Taft opposing war crimes trials after WWII) as well as its victors. The selections range widely through Western history, from Pericles’s funeral oration to fallen Greek soldiers in the Peloponnesian War, to Tony Blair "exhorting his party to fight terrorism." History has yet to pass judgment on the greatness of the most recent speeches included here, but Safire shows a broad-minded, bipartisan inclusiveness in collecting the words of Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, history’s losers (Sen. But many readers will no doubt skip his prefatory lesson in rhetoric and go right to the speeches themselves. The third edition of this comprehensive collection of oratory through the ages is appropriately edited by former presidential speechwriter Safire-a man who knows firsthand the importance of putting together the right words for the right moment. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
A new section incorporates speeches that were never delivered: what Kennedy was scheduled to say in Dallas what Safire wrote for Nixon if the first moon landing met with disaster and what Clinton originally planned to say after his grand jury testimony but swapped for a much fiercer speech. Zanuck, General George Patton exhorting his troops before D-Day, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking on Bush v. Bush, this latest edition includes the words of Cromwell to the "Rump Parliament," Orson Welles eulogizing Darryl F. Covering speeches from Demosthenes to George W. He is considered by many to be America's most influential political columnist and most elegant explicator of our language. It is selected, arranged, and introduced by William Safire, who honed his skills as a presidential speechwriter. An instant classic when it was first published a decade ago and now enriched by seventeen new speeches, Lend Me Your Ears contains more than two hundred outstanding moments of oratory.
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