Great eulogies throughout history /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Daley, James, 1979- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., [2016]
Series:Dover thrift editions.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.