A compendium of more than 200 classic and modern speeches, compiled by a presidential speechwriter and the Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist for The New York Time's 'On Language,' includes Orson Welles eulogizing Darryl F. Zanuck, George Patton's exhorting his D-Day troops, and the never-delivered speech Kennedy was scheduled to give in Dallas. 30,000 first printing.