Make it plain
a life of speaking
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
2008 - PublicAffairs, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
59,750 words, Guess
Page Count
239 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivemakeitplainstand00jrve
- Internet Archivemakeitplainstand00jord
- ISBN-139781586482985
- ISBN-10158648298X
- LibraryThing6259217
and 5 more
- Goodreads3343901
- Library of Congress Control Number2008032640
- OCLC Control Number191926284
- Better World Books9781586482985
- Open LibraryOL17010170M
Classifications
- DDC323.092
- DDCB
- LCCE185.97.J78 A3 2008
and 1 more
- LCCE185.97.J78A3 2008
Description
Black Americans have always relied on the oral tradition--storytelling, preaching, and speechmaking--to assert their rights and preserve and pass on their history and culture. In the pulpit, courtroom, or cotton field, they have understood the power of words, distinctively delivered, to educate and inspire. Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., one of the nation's finest speakers, imbibed this tradition as a young man and has given it his own unique inflection from his work on the civil rights front lines, to the National Urban League, to positions of influence at the highest level of business and politics. A friend and confidant to presidents, Jordan has never forgotten the men and women whose oratorical skill in service to social justice deeply influenced him. Their examples and voices, reflected in Vernon's own, make this book both a history and an embodiment of black speech at its finest.--From publisher description.
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Genres
- Biography
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