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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jennifer Palmieri was the Director of Communications for the Obama White House, but resigned her job to take the same post for Hillary Clinton's campaign.She fully expected Hillary to be elected and that she herself would continue a similar position in the new White House. As the campaign wore on, doubts crept in as Trump's campaign antics continued.This is written as a letter to the future first US woman president – how she can learn from the Clinton campaign and become stronger for it.Each chapter details the Clinton campaign, with only a short paragraph or two at the end addressing the new Madam President to be.Palmieri has several interesting points including her analysis of TJSAHIDL (There's just something about her I don't like). I was also intrigued by her explanation of why many people were most impressed by Hillary's concession speech rather than her earlier campaign speeches. Palmieri believes that this is partly due to people liking women who are accepting and gracious losers instead of powerful women putting forth their agenda.I had seen Ms Palmieri interviewed about this book on the Rachel Madow show. I wasn't exactly disappointed by the book, but somehow it didn't live up to what I had imagined. It's a short book and a quick read; not earth shattering but worth the look into the Clinton campaign by one of it's primary players.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is an "open letter to the women who will run the world" by Hillary Clinton's former director of communication during the 2016 presidential campaign. She draws upon this experience, as well as the many years prior to this working in other government positions, to share all she learned with future female candidates for high office. It was a quick read, but very insightful. I really enjoyed it!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Best for: Those looking for a quick read that’s mostly about Hillary Clinton’s run for president.In a nutshell: This is “An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World.” But it’s more a short retelling of some parts of the Clinton 2016 Presidential Campaign framed around the idea that it’s a letter to the first woman to be US President.Worth quoting:“I have always thought that I could do any job a man can do just as well as him. Only recently have I come to realize that I don’t want to. I want to do the job the best way I can do it, not the way he would.”“Yes, I’m sure you loved her concession speech. Because that’s what you think is acceptable for a woman to do — concede.”“We have no idea what beneficial qualities we might be stifling in ourselves as long as we continue to follow an outdated set of behavioral rules that were designed to permit women to play a niche role in a workplace built for men.”Why I chose it: I heard the author speak on the Rachel Maddow show, and the excerpt shared sounded interesting.Review:The concept behind this book is a good one, but I’m not sure the execution worked for me. The book is 175 pages, but each page is probably half the size of a standard hardcover book, so it’s a very quick read — I started it at 9:30 PM last night and finished it just after 11 PM. It moved me, and it frustrated me, and it angered me. So in that respect, it certainly got me thinking.But I think it’s a bit of false advertising. It’s really a short review of the Clinton campaign, with a few anecdotes from the author’s time in the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama White Houses. The author means to take lessons from the campaign and share them with readers (specifically, woman), but after sleeping on it and thinking about it more today, I think the concept wasn’t realized in as strong a way as it could have been.There are clear nuggets of wisdom in here, and there are interesting stories that illustrate them. But I think the book would have worked better for me if there had been more concrete suggestions. Or fewer. It’s in the middle space for me, where the book is not long enough to dive deeply into this issues, but is too long to be a tight booklet with a more coherent message.The overall idea is that we (women) need to stop looking at the way men do things and aim to be like them; instead, we need to be like us. I don’t disagree that women are judged differently (and Ms. Palmieri certainly provides loads of great examples of this), but something about this premise felt as though it were lumping ‘how women act’ into one bucket, and I’m not okay with that.I do think the book is worth a read, and I’d be interested in reading what other women think after reading it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World by Jennifer Palmieri is an empowering voice for women. It's written as a letter to the future female President of the United States (if you couldn't figure that out from the title). To give some background, Palmieri served as the White House Director of Communications under President Obama and then afterwards as the Director of Communications for the Clinton presidential campaign in 2016. Therefore, the reader will not be surprised that a large chunk of this book is devoted to behind the scenes of that campaign and its aftermath on herself and the country (from her point-of-view). From this standpoint alone, the book is interesting as we are seeing an event through the eyes of someone who actually experienced it from the inside. The overarching purpose of this book is to give advice and encouragement to women in any and every type of environment. Palmieri seeks to embolden women to allow for vulnerability and use the strengths that have historically been seen as weaknesses to launch yourself to the top. She emphasizes the importance of sticking up for yourself so that your voice is heard especially when yours is the only female voice in the room. (Did I mention this is quite a pro-female book? It is and I love that.) Remember: We cannot play by the same rules as men and we shouldn't have to. Personally, despite its shortness I think this is a necessary book for all peoples to read regardless of gender (but ladies ya'll should really try to seek this one out). I especially liked the book recommendations scattered throughout. :-D A solid 8/10 for me.
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Successful Methods of Public Speaking - Kleiser Grenville
Successful
Methods of
Public Speaking
By
GRENVILLE KLEISER
First published in 1920
This edition published by Read Books Ltd.
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Contents
PREFACE
SUCCESSFUL METHODS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING
STUDY OF MODEL SPEECHES
HISTORY OF PUBLIC SPEAKING
EXTRACTS FOR STUDY, WITH LESSON TALK
HOW TO SPEAK IN PUBLIC
AIMS AND PURPOSES OF SPEAKING
It is obvious that the style of your public speaking will depend upon the specific purpose you have in view. If you have important truths which you wish to make known, or a great and definite cause to serve, you are likely to speak about it with earnestness and probably with eloquence.
If, however, your purpose in speaking is a selfish one—if your object is self-exploitation, or to serve some special interest of your own—if you regard your speaking as an irksome task, or are unduly anxious as to what your hearers will think of you and your effort—then you are almost sure to fail.
On the other hand, if you have the interests of your hearers sincerely at heart—if you really wish to render a worthy public service—if you lose all thought of self in your heartfelt desire to serve others—then you will have the most essential requirements of true and enduring oratory.
-Grenville Kleiser
Model Speeches for Practise, 1920
PREFACE
As you carefully study the successful methods of public speakers, as briefly set forth in this book, you will observe that there is nothing that can be substituted for personal sincerity. Unless you thoroughly believe in the message you wish to convey to others, you are not likely to impress them favorably.
It was said of an eminent British orator, that when one heard him speak in public, one instinctively felt that there was something finer in the man than in anything he said.
Therein lies the key to successful oratory. When the truth of your message is deeply engraved on your own mind; when your own heart has been touched as by a living flame; when your own character and personality testify to the innate sincerity and nobility of your life, then your speech will be truly eloquent, and men will respond to your fervent appeal.
Grenville Kleiser.
New York City,
August, 1919.
SUCCESSFUL
METHODS OF
PUBLIC SPEAKING
You can acquire valuable knowledge for use in your own public speaking by studying the successful methods of other men. This does not mean, however, that you are to imitate others, but simply to profit by their experience and suggestions in so far as they fit in naturally with your personality.
All successful speakers do not speak alike. Each man has found certain things to be effective in his particular case, but which would not necessarily be suited to a different type of speaker.
When, therefore, you read the following methods of various men, ask yourself in each case whether you can apply the ideas to advantage in your own speaking. Put the method to a practical test, and decide for yourself whether it is advisable for you to adopt it or not.
REQUIREMENTS OF EFFECTIVE SPEAKING
There are certain requirements in public speaking which you and every other speaker must observe. You must be grammatical, intelligent, lucid, and sincere. These are essential. You must know your subject thoroughly, and have the ability to put it into pleasing and persuasive form.
But beyond these considerations there are many things which must be left to your temperament, taste, and individuality. To compel you to speak according to inflexible rules would make you not an orator but an automaton.
The temperamental differences in successful speakers have been very great. One eminent speaker used practically no gesture; another was in almost constant action. One was quiet, modest, and conversational in his speaking style; another was impulsive and resistless as a mountain torrent.
It is safe to say that almost any man, however unpretentious his language, will command a hearing in Congress, Parliament, or elsewhere, if he gives accurate information upon a subject of importance and in a manner of unquestioned sincerity.
You will observe in the historical accounts of great orators, that without a single exception they studied, read, practised, conversed, and meditated, not occasionally, but with daily regularity. Many of them were endowed with natural gifts, but they supplemented these with indefatigable work.
WELL-KNOWN
SPEAKERS AND THEIR METHODS
Chalmers
There is a rugged type of speaker who transcends and seemingly defies all rules of oratory. Such a man was the great Scottish preacher Chalmers, who was without polished elocution, grace, or manner, but who through his intellectual power and moral earnestness thrilled all who heard him.
He read his sermons entirely from manuscripts, but it is evident from the effects of his preaching that he was not a slave to the written word as many such speakers have been. While he read, he retained much of his freedom of gesture and physical expression, doubtless due to familiarity with his subject and thorough preparation of his message.
John Bright
You can profitably study the speeches of John Bright. They are noteworthy for their simplicity of diction and uniform quality of directness. His method was to make a plain statement of facts, enunciate certain fundamental principles, then follow with his argument and application.
His choice of words and style of delivery were most carefully studied, and his sonorous voice was under such complete control that he could speak at great length without the slightest fatigue. Many of his illustrations were drawn from the Bible, which he is said to have known better than any other book.
Lord Brougham
Lord Brougham wrote nine times the concluding parts of his speech for the defense of Queen