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Recommendations... Flappers 2 Rappers: American Youth Slang
by Tom Dalzell
Entertaining, highly readable book pulses with the vernacular of young Americans from the end of the 19th century to the present. Alphabetical listings for each decade, plus fascinating sidebars about language and culture.
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 Damn the Man!: Slang of the Oppressed in America
by Tom Dalzell
Original hardcover publication conducts a fascinating exploration of the role of language in the culture of resistance. Hundreds of colorful examples include slang from communities of African Americans, immigrants, gay men, military, prisoners, and more.
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| |  Women's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations
by Susan L. Rattiner
Over 400 memorable quotes from the last 2,500 years by Sappho, Queen Elizabeth I, Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt, Erma Bombeck, Oprah Winfrey, and many others. A delight!
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 Great Inaugural Addresses
by James Daley
This collection features the voices of 20 Chief Executives, from Washington's 1789 oration to Obama's 2009 speech. A reference for students of political science and an inspiration for readers of every political persuasion.
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| |  Music: A Book of Quotations
by Herb Galewitz
More than 400 memorable quotes about the world of music, from Fred Allen to Oscar Wilde, from Friedrich Nietzsche to Florian Zabach. Wonderful for public speakers or just browsing.
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Products in Quotes, Slang, Speeches & Wit | | |  | The Ball and the Cross
by G. K. Chesterton
Chesterton's second novel chronicles a hot dispute between two Scotsmen, a Roman Catholic, and an atheist, whose fanatically held opinions inspire a host of comic adventures. Introduction by Martin Gardner.
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|  | Book of African-American Quotations
by Joslyn Pine
This original collection of quotations cites approximately 100 well-known African Americans from all walks of life, including Maya Angelou, Louis Armstrong, Muhammad Ali, Julian Bond, George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglass, and Ralph Ellison.
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|  | Books and Reading: A Book of Quotations
by Bill Bradfield
Over 450 memorable quotes from writers, political figures, and celebrities with provocative declarations from Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Andrew Carnegie, Theodore Roosevelt, and Oprah Winfrey, among others.
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|  | The Coloured Lands: Fairy Stories, Comic Verse and Fantastic Pictures
by G. K. Chesterton, G. K. Chesterton, Martin Gardner
Featuring the author's early work and previously unpublished material, this volume abounds in fairy stories, comic verse, and satirical ballads — and best of all, Chesterton's distinctive color and black-and-white illustrations.
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| | Damn the Man!: Slang of the Oppressed in America
by Tom Dalzell
Original hardcover publication conducts a fascinating exploration of the role of language in the culture of resistance. Hundreds of colorful examples include slang from communities of African Americans, immigrants, gay men, military, prisoners, and more.
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| | Flappers 2 Rappers: American Youth Slang
by Tom Dalzell
Entertaining, highly readable book pulses with the vernacular of young Americans from the end of the 19th century to the present. Alphabetical listings for each decade, plus fascinating sidebars about language and culture.
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|  | Food and Drink: A Book of Quotations
by Susan L. Rattiner
Scores of humorous, frequently incisive remarks by famous writers, humorists, and celebrities, including W. K. Chesterton, W. C. Fields, Julia Child, Marilyn Monroe, George Bernard Shaw, Robert Morley, and many more.
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| | Great Inaugural Addresses
by James Daley
This collection features the voices of 20 Chief Executives, from Washington's 1789 oration to Obama's 2009 speech. A reference for students of political science and an inspiration for readers of every political persuasion.
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|  | Great Speeches by African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack Obama, and Others
by James Daley
Tracing the struggle for freedom and civil rights across two centuries, this anthology comprises speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr., Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Barack Obama, and many other influential figures. Includes 2 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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|  | Great Speeches by Native Americans
by Bob Blaisdell
These 82 speeches encompass 5 centuries of Indian encounters with nonindigenous peoples. Speakers include Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, Seattle, Geronimo, Crazy Horse, and many lesser-known leaders.
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|  | Great Speeches of the 20th Century
by Bob Blaisdell
This stirring anthology features addresses by Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, the Dalai Lama, César Chávez, and many others. Includes 3 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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|  | Great Speeches on Gay Rights
by James Daley
Tracing the movement's rhetoric from the late 1800s to the present, this anthology includes Ingersoll's "Address at the Funeral of Walt Whitman," Milk's "Hope Speech," and Kameny's "Civil Liberties: A Progress Report."
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| | | Music: A Book of Quotations
by Herb Galewitz
More than 400 memorable quotes about the world of music, from Fred Allen to Oscar Wilde, from Friedrich Nietzsche to Florian Zabach. Wonderful for public speakers or just browsing.
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|  | New York: The Big Apple Quote Book
by Bob Blaisdell
More than 1,000 quotes from Walt Whitman, Calvin Trillin, Helen Hayes, Lenny Bruce, and others comment on skyscrapers, subways, the boroughs, Lady Liberty, and why people love and hate New York City.
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| |  | Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations
by James H. Billington, Library of Congress
A treasury of thought-provoking declarations and observations features a splendid variety of political, scientific, social, and literary voices. Quoted historical figures include Paine, Milton, Emerson, Marx, Napoleon, Dickens, and Churchill.
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|  | Tremendous Trifles
by G. K. Chesterton
Chesterton's 39 essays result from "sitting still and letting marvels and adventures settle on him like flies." Full of both good sense and nonsense, his commentaries on finding the extraordinary within the ordinary are delightful.
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