Great eulogies throughout history /
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Mineola, New York :
Dover Publications, Inc.,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Funeral oration by Pericles
- George Washington (1732-1799) by Major General Henry Lee
- Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804)
- John Adams (1735-1826) and Thomas Jeffereson (1743-1826) by Daniel Webster
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) by Franz Grillparzer
- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) by Amasa McCoy
- Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) by Frederick Douglass
- Voltaire (1694-1778) by Victor Hugo
- Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) by Susan Gilbert Dickinson
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892) by Robert Ingersoll
- Charles Tiffany (1812-1902) by Annabel Goan
- Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) by Rev. Anna Howard Shaw
- Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) by John H. Finley
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) by Ernst Strauss
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) by Mike Mansfield, Earl Warren, and John W. McCormack
- T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) by Sir Rupert Hart-Davis
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) by Benjamin E. Mays
- W.H. Auden (1907-1973) by Stephen Spender
- Anais Nin (1903-1977) by Henry Miller
- The Challenger astronauts by President Ronald Reagan
- Mickey Mantle (1931-1995) by Bob Costas
- Coretta Scott King (1927-2006) by Maya Angelou
- Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) by President Barack Obama.