Title:
Onward! : 25 years of advice, exhortation, and inspiration from America's best commencement speeches
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edited by Peter Smith.
Publication Information:
New York : Scribner, c2000.
Physical Description:
303 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9780684864525
Abstract:
"Far from being a tired truism, the commencement address can be a thoughtful, heartfelt epistle, a dispatch from the front lines of adulthood to the fresh recruits of the newly graduated. In Onward! Twenty-Five Years of Advice, Exhortation, and Inspiration from America's Best Commencement Speeches, Smith has culled what the best minds (and hearts) have imparted to college graduates and in the process has created both a remarkable social history and a stirring celebration of the human spirit." "Arranged by year (and introduced with a recap of each year's cultural trends and events), the excerpts in Onward! spring from people with a wide array of talent, experience, and perspective: presidents and novelists, actors and news anchors, scientists and comedians. Their wisdom - much of it surprising, all of it compelling - will inform, delight, and inspire."--BOOK JACKET.
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Contents:
Art Buchwald -- Buckminster Fuller -- David Broder -- Edward W. Brooke -- Isaac Asimov -- May Sarton -- Gerald Ford -- Norman Cousins -- Vincent Barnett -- Vernon Jordan -- Andrew Hacker -- Martin Marty -- William Kunstler -- Warren E. Burger -- George Plimpton -- Hubert Humphrey -- Juanita Kreps -- Madeleine L'Engle -- Paul Freund -- Roy Wilkins -- Shirley Chisholm -- Studs Terkel -- Anthony Lewis -- Edward O. Wilson -- James V. Cunningham -- Francine du Plessix Gray -- George Plimpton -- Ramsey Clark -- Adrienne Rich -- Art Buchwald -- E. L. Doctorow -- Elizabeth Drew -- Tom Brokaw -- Toni Morrison -- Joseph Califano -- Alan Alda -- Elie Wiesel -- Francine du Plessix Gray -- John Kenneth Galbraith -- The Lord Annan -- Maya Angelou -- Pat Collins -- William Styron -- Christopher Lasch -- Elizabeth Holtzman -- Shirley Chisholm -- Jane Bryant Quinn -- Sam Nunn -- Vernon Jordan -- Sissela Bok -- James Olson -- Frances FitzGerald -- Dan Quayle -- Mother Teresa -- Christopher Dodd -- Elie Wiesel -- Ted Koppel -- Margaret Atwood -- Meryl Streep -- Wyndham Robertson -- Susan Sontag -- Lewis Thomas -- Terry Sanford -- E. L. Doctorow -- Robert Thurman -- James Lovell -- Coretta Scott King -- Mario Cuomo -- Charlayne Hunter-Gault -- Julius Lester -- Jane Alexander -- Barbara Kennelly -- Dan Rather -- Howard Baker -- Robert Coles -- Athol Fugard -- Neil Simon -- Loret Miller Ruppe -- Fred Rogers -- Beverly Sills -- Katharine Hepburn -- Beverly Sills -- Pearl Bailey -- Thomas Winship.