PUBLIC SPEAKING: The Art Of Public Speaking, How To Speak In Public & The Manual of Public Speaking

Voice, Persuasion, and Civic LeadershipBy Dale Carnegie, J. Berg Esenwein, Henry Dickson, Orison Swett Marden
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This practical compendium gathers influential early twentieth-century manuals on oratory, presenting public speaking as both an art and a disciplined civic skill. Across instruction in vocal delivery, composition, audience psychology, persuasion, debate, and self-command, the volume ranges from methodical textbook guidance to energetic exhortation. Its constituent works illuminate a formative period in which eloquence was understood as essential to professional advancement, democratic participation, and personal cultivation; especially memorable are its sustained treatments of confidence, preparation, and the transformation of ordinary experience into effective speech. Dale Carnegie, J. Berg Esenwein, Henry Dickson, and Orison Swett Marden represent overlapping traditions of rhetoric, self-improvement, education, and popular professional instruction. Their combined perspectives situate speaking within the Progressive-era faith in training, initiative, and communicative competence. Rather than offering a single doctrine, the collection brings together pedagogical frameworks shaped by classroom rhetoric, business culture, and the broader self-help movement, revealing how public address was adapted to modern social and occupational life. Recommended for students of communication, teachers, aspiring speakers, and readers of rhetorical history, this volume offers an unusually broad encounter with the principles and aspirations of public expression. Its diverse methods invite comparison, while its recurring emphasis on clarity, character, and audience awareness encourages readers to test enduring advice against contemporary practice.

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GenreBusiness and Economics, Literary Classics
Length33 hrs 27 mins
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Publish dateJan 6, 2016
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1PUBLIC SPEAKING: The Art Of Public Speaking, How To Speak In Public & The Manual of Public Speaking
26CHAPTER XXIII
2The Art of Public Speaking
27CHAPTER XXIV
3THINGS TO THINK OF FIRST
28CHAPTER XXV
4CHAPTER I
29CHAPTER XXVI
5CHAPTER II
30CHAPTER XXVII
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6CHAPTER III
31CHAPTER XXVIII
7CHAPTER IV
32CHAPTER XXIX
8CHAPTER V
33CHAPTER XXX
9CHAPTER VI
34CHAPTER XXXI
10CHAPTER VII
35APPENDICES
11CHAPTER VIII
36APPENDIX A
12CHAPTER IX
37APPENDIX B
13CHAPTER X
38APPENDIX C
14CHAPTER XI
39APPENDIX D (pt. 1)
15CHAPTER XII
40APPENDIX D (pt. 2)
16CHAPTER XIII
41APPENDIX D (pt. 3)
17CHAPTER XIV
42Public Speaking: The Manual
18CHAPTER XV
43Part I. The Aims Of The Y. M. C. A. Course in Public Speaking
19CHAPTER XVI
44Part II. The Instructor
20CHAPTER XVII
45Part III. Characteristics Of Students
21CHAPTER XVIII
46Part IV. Methods Of Instruction
22CHAPTER XIX
479. Practice Classes (pt. 1)
23CHAPTER XX
489. Practice Classes (pt. 2)
24CHAPTER XXI
499. Practice Classes (pt. 3)
25CHAPTER XXII
50How To Speak In Public
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