Sounding the trumpet : the making of John F. Kennedy's inaugural address /

It was a grand speech and the keynote for a generation of Americans. One observer called it the finest American political document in more than forty years. Another thought it was the best expression of the American spirit since Woodrow Wilson, perhaps since Emerson. Approaching a half century after...

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Main Author: Tofel, Richard J., 1957-
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Created: Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2005.
Subjects:
Kennedy, John F. > (John Fitzgerald), > 1917-1963 > Inaugurations.
Kennedy, John F. > (John Fitzgerald), > 1917-1963
1961-1963
Presidents > United States > Inaugural addresses.
Inauguration.
Politics and government
Presidents.
United States > Politics and government > 1961-1963.
United States.
Speeches.
Online Access:Table of contents
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Table of Contents:
  • Part one : January 20
  • Part two : The making of the Inaugural address, 1961. When
  • Why
  • How
  • Part three : After
  • Appendices. The surviving excerpts from the first draft of Kennedy's inaugural address
  • The earliest surviving draft of the address : the cut-down version of the TCS draft, on or before January 10, 1961
  • Kennedy's dictation, January 10, 1961
  • The penultimate draft of the address, January 17, 1961
  • President Kennedy's inaugural address as delivered, January 20, 1961
  • Kennedy's "Memorabilia" version of the address, January 17, 1961
  • Theodore Sorensen's draft inaugural parody, January 17, 1962.

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