Make It Plain: Standing Up and Speaking Out - Hardcover

Jordan Jr., Vernon

 
9781586482985: Make It Plain: Standing Up and Speaking Out
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 158648298X ISBN 13: 9781586482985
Verlag: PublicAffairs, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

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—from Ruby Hurley to Wiley Branton to Gardner C. Taylor to Martin Luther King, Jr.—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: Full of emotion, controlled force, righteous indignation, love of country, and awe in front of the God-given challenges ahead.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. is a senior managing director of Lazard Frères & Co., LLC in New York. He was previously president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League, executive director of the United Negro College Fund, Inc., and director of the Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council. He served as chairman of the Clinton Presidential Transition Team in 1992 and is senior counsel at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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Verlag
PublicAffairs
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
158648298X
ISBN 13 
9781586482985
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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