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Mon 12 Dec 2009Advice on public speaking of little help to would-be orators of today
BOOK REVIEW:The 100: Insights and Lessons from 100 of the Greatest Speeches EverDelivered By Simon Maier and Jeremy Kourdi; Marshall Cavendish; £12.99 (€14.30)
SAY WHAT you like about Hitler but he was great at giving speeches. I’m paraphrasing, but that’s essentially what Simon Maier and Jeremy Kourdi write in this collection of appalling truisms loosely based on what they claim are history’s best speeches, in which a fondness for genocide is no barrier to inclusion.
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