A review by iainkelly_writing
The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches by

4.0

It is always going to be difficult to cover everything and please everyone with a collection spanning so much history. This does a pretty good job, although there are some omissions - no Reagan demanding 'tear down this wall', nothing from Gorbachev, no JFK promising to land a man on the moon, no Churchill fighting them on the beaches. Still, it's a decent spread of people and topics, centred around the US and UK. With the updated edition finishing with Trump's first State of the Union speech, I also highlights how far and fast we have fallen in our public and political discourse.