Wills shows how Lincoln came to change the world and to effect an intellectual revolution, how his words had to and did complete the work of the guns, and how Lincoln wove a spell that has not yet been broken.

In this work, Denise M. Bostdorff considers President Truman’s address to a joint session of Congress on March 12, 1947.

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In the tradition of Wills's "Lincoln at Gettysburg, Lincoln's Greatest Speech" combines impeccable scholarship and lively, engaging writing to reveal the full meaning of one of the greatest speeches in the nation's history.

Looks at the history and culture of the ethnic groups who are descendants from Asian and Pacific Island countries, covering such topics as religion, family, health, employment, civil rights, and education.

Richard B. Gregg ends the book by looking for "conceptual-metaphorical" patterns that may be emerging in political rhetoric in the 1980s.