Publisher Description
This is a special production from SoundCraft Audiobooks, the eighth volume in the "History's Greatest Speeches" series and the second to feature the voices of some of the most important women in world history. Fort Raphael Publishing has collected seven of the most important and iconic speeches of all time, all of which were written and delivered by the most important women of their respective eras. We then hired the finest narrators in the business to read these speeches as they might have originally been delivered and added atmospheric sound effects to allow the listener to feel as if they were actually present when the speech was performed. From Ida B. Wells' (Devereau Chumrau) powerful condemnation of the scourge of lynching to Eva Peron's (Kelly Silva O'Rourke) renunciation of the Vice Presidency of Argentina, these speeches were among the most influential, important and moving speeches ever delivered. This volume also features the labor leader Mother Jones (Jean Moran), suffragist Nellie McClung (Allison Black), women's rights pioneer Carrie Chapman Catt (Lia Mortensen), physicist and Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie (Sara Nichols), and the United States' and the longest serving First Lady and human rights advocate Eleanor Roosevelt (Barbara Robertson). This collection of powerful and moving speeches pays tribute to these great world leaders and the words they used to inspire millions. This is the second volume of this special series.
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About the Authors
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) was the wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the mother their six children. She was an American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, holding the post from March 1933 to April 1945. She made Gallup's list of “People that Americans Most Widely Admired in the 20th Century,” and Time's “The 25 Most Powerful Women of the Past Century.” She also served as delegate to the United Nations General Assembly, representative to the Commission on Human Rights under Harry S. Truman, and chairwoman of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women under John F. Kennedy.
About Sara Nichols
Emily Brontë (1818–1848),
sister of Anne and Charlotte, published only one novel in her career, Wuthering Heights. Though she died just one year after its publication and
never knew of its success, the story of doomed love and revenge went on to earn its
place among the masterpieces of English literature.