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New York, New York, December 14th, 2004
With the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan entering crucial phases,
and misgivings regarding pre-war intelligence haunting both
efforts, the year's most historic political speeches sort out
strengths and weaknesses in intelligence gathering, U.S. foreign
policy, and American soldiering.
Representative
American Speeches 2003-2004, new in H.W. Wilson's
Reference Shelf book series, focuses on key speeches by such
political heavyweights as George W. Bush, Colin Powell, John
Kerry, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Gary Hart, Thomas Kean, Dianne
Feinstein, and others.
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“Diplomacy isn’t the
opposite of force. Diplomacy without power is just naked
pleading. Power without diplomacy is incomplete.”
—Colin Powell
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The volume
leads off with sections on U.S. Intelligence, Foreign Policy and
The American Veteran. Two other sections feature speeches on
perennial issues: Intellectual Property and Challenges to the
Environment. Twenty-six speeches are presented in total, along
with a cumulative speaker index for Representative American
Speeches volumes back to 2000. An index to subjects covered by
the 2003-2004 speeches rounds out the new work.
Representative American Speeches 2003-2004 completes Volume 76 of The Reference Shelf Series, a library
standard since 1922. Aside from the unique Representative American
Speeches compilations, each book in the yearly
six-book set brings together 20 or more notable articles from
diverse national publications, exploring current subjects from
multiple perspectives for the benefit of researchers, students,
and general readers. Reference Shelf titles also provide
abstracts of 20 to 30 additional articles and a bibliography of
other helpful sources.
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“Russia
can and should become a major Western nation and a major
oil exporter, in partnership with Western production
companies, to replace unstable supplies in the Persian
Gulf and reduce OPEC’s leverage on the United States.”
—Gary Hart |
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“New
doctrines of preemption raise profound questions about
democratic oversight.… They also raise profound questions
about the quality of the intelligence information that is
not open to public scrutiny.”
—Hillary Rodham Clinton |
All six titles
from Volume 76 (which also includes Homeland Security,
U.S. National Debate Topic
2004-2005: The United Nations, The Two Koreas, The U.S. Election System,
and The Car and Its Future)
are still available. Volume 77 (2005) will include The European Union,
Free Trade, Women's Rights, The United States Supreme Court,
Representative American
Speeches 2004-2005, and a volume devoted to the U.S.
National Debate Topic 2005-2006 (topic to be announced).
Libraries that order complete 6-volume sets receive a
substantial discount.
Representative American Speeches 2003-2004
December 2005 · 200 pages · ISSN 0197-6923 · $50 ($55 outside
the U.S. & Canada)
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