The Greatest Speeches of All Time

By: Joan of Arc, Winston Churchill, Susan B. Anthony, Amelia Earhart, John F. Kennedy, George Washington

Narrated by: David Birney, Loretta Swit

Length: 1 hr and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

The full list of authors includes: Susan B. Anthony, Joan of Arc, Winston Churchill, Jefferson Davis, Amelia Earhart, David Ben Gurion, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, Nikolai Lenin, Martin Luther, Richard Nixon, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Robespierre, and George Washington.

More than 40 speeches - considered among the greatest of all time - comprise this marvelous collection. All the works you'll hear are unabridged, and the most contemporary are live recordings. Other historical speeches are read by professional actors David Birney, Juliet Mills, Loretta Swit, and Stephanie Beacham. Included are speeches by Susan B. Anthony, Joan of Arc, Winston Churchill, Jefferson Davis, Amelia Earhart, David Ben Gurion, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, Nikolai Lenin, Martin Luther, Richard Nixon, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Robespierre, George Washington, and others.

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Just Plain Bad

The actors reading the speeches are just plain bad. Speeches should not be read as if they were books on tape--but as speeches! Here the actors essentially speak in a monotone. The selection of live speeches leaves much to be desired. No matter what you think of Bill Clinton, does he deserve ANY time in the Greatest Speeches of All Time? NO! Does he deserve 30 minutes? HA! Does Gloria Steinham deserve even so much as one second? Give me a break! This title is so bad that it is putrid. Don't even think of getting it.

Jimmy Carter & Clinton's speeches must be a joke!

Likes:
Most people are not aware of the great leaders of history! If more people listened to the inspiring speeches from great leaders such as Churchill, Kennedy and Martin Luther and M.L.King, and read some history; they would not stand for the double speaking, spineless, self serving, and quisling like, empty suit politicians in the house and senate that keep getting re-elected!

Dislikes:
To include Jimmy Carter hopeless speech and a 10 self indulgent fluff speech by Bill Clinton, is utterly laughable, in the light of the giants, while not including the actual speech by Ronald Reagan's "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." Instead, the CD has a two-minute segment from an American TV address in which he tells of seeing the Berlin Wall.

The one thing it shows is the political leanings of the people that put this audio book collection together....

Disappointed

This was a real disappointment. A few, I repeat few, words from some great people. a sad sack speech from Jimmy Carter. Not recommended.

Important Words ... boring readers

For each speech the producers hired an actor who could mimic the real person - and then instructed them to speak in a serious and dull tone so that listeners would know that this is important stuff. A real speaker passionate about their cause and subject would not read this material with the lack of emotion shown by these actors.

Quality idea, trash production value

For example, they didn’t do Reagan’s actual “tear down this wall speech” they found a speech that is him talking about that speech. A minute of googling could have solved a lot of the problems here.