Professor Jeremi (Jeremy) Suri
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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I think there are three necessary ingredients.
First of all, you have to have something to say.
You have to have a message.
You have to have a vision.
You have to have a story.
So the content matters.
People sometimes think you can wordsmith your way to eloquence.
There's no eloquence without content.
So that's the first thing.
Second, you have to find language that resonates with your audience.
And most speeches, very good speeches, resonate with an audience in its particular moment, in its particular place.
The workers in the factory in Michigan, the people at the July 4th celebration on the lawn.
The truly great speeches resonate with an audience across time.
That's what we're going to be talking about with Washington and Lincoln and Roosevelt.
They use language
that resonates across periods of time, across context.
And then the third thing is finding some memorable phrases, some ways of saying things that endure poetry, some would say, something beyond prose, something that becomes embedded in one's memory, in one's thinking, kind of like a music lyric.
That's the sort of symphonic element of a speech.
The Washington's farewell address in the fall of 1796 is really designed to be a testament.
He's reacting to what he sees as rising partisanship, what he calls factionalism, and a real dispute that threatens to tear the country apart over whether the country should ally with Britain or with France during this war, the Napoleonic Wars that the British and the French are fighting.
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