In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century Edited by Senator R. Torricelli and A. Carroll This bestselling collection of American oratory is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: a record of twentieth-century America captured in the words that inspired and infuriated, electrified and galvanized its people... In Our Own Words bears witness to the forces that swept our nation-two World Wars, Prohibition, the Depression, the Cold War, the Civil Rights era, Vietnam, the Reagan era, and beyond-and features the voices of Theodore Roosevelt, Booker T. Washington, Mark Twain, Emma Goldman, Woodrow Wilson, Marcus Garvey, Joseph McCarthy, Rachel Carson, Vince Lombardi, Barry Goldwater, John F. Kennedy, J. Edgar Hoover, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. …and dozens of others who tell the story of their age form their podiums and soapboxes, courtrooms and convention halls. Senator Robert Torricelli (D-NJ) is a member of the Governmental Affairs, Judiciary, Rules, and Foreign Relations committees. He writes all of his own speeches. Andrew Carroll is the editor of the bestselling Letters of a nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters and the founder of the Legacy Project, a national effort to seek out and preserve historically significant correspondence by Americans from all walks of life.