Each A Mighty Voice: A Century of Speeches from The Commonwealth Club of California

Edited by Steven Boyd Saum; Preface by Gloria Duffy; Foreword by Kevin Starr

The Commonwealth Club, the nation's oldest and largest public affairs forum, has hosted presidents, national and world leaders, policymakers, leading lights in the arts and sciences and countless celebrities, beginning with Theodore Roosevelt in 1911.

Heyday Books is proud to present this centennial collection of speeches delivered at The Commonwealth Club. Rich with ideas, sweeping in scope, Each a Mighty Voice immerses you in the anguish, excitement, and fears of the last century: not as history, but as present tense. Here are the ideas that have shaped our century, and the words that have brought us here.

Published in collaboration with the Commonwealth Club of California

Reviews

"Each a Mighty Voice should be required reading for every political candidate, public spokesperson, and business leader. Herein are the speeches of our times...the great words that have guided America, as well as the demagoguery that nearly derailed her from time to time."—Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, The Kitchen God's Wife, and The Thousand Secret Senses

"If you've got something of interest to say, The Commonwealth Club is interested in hearing it—as Each a Mighty Voice proves in spades. Where else would you find speeches delivered by Joe McCarthy and Joan Baez, FDR and Dan Quayle, Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan? In a political atmosphere polluted by bias, bile, and bellicosity, The Commonwealth Club stands as a beacon of openness, evenhandedness, and civility."—Arianna Huffington, syndicated columnist and author of Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America

About the Editor

Steven Boyd Saum is Editor-in-Chief for the Commonwealth Club of California. A graduate of Emory University and Johns Hopkins, he has also served in the U.S. Peace Corps, hosted a radio show, and directed the Fulbright Program in Ukraine. His essays, fiction, and reviews have appeared on Salon.com and in the Kenyon Review, The Christian Science Monitor, and elsewhere.