Onward!: Twenty-Five Years of Advice, Exhortation, and Inspiration from America's Best Commencement Speeches
- List Price: $26.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Scribner Book Company
- Publish date: 05/01/2000
Divided chronologically into twenty-five chapters, Onward! is an engaging reference and an absorbing social history. Each chapter begins with an introductory essay that offers some historical and social context, followed by highlights from ten of the best commencement speeches of that year given at colleges across North America. A wealth of wise advice, humorous anecdotes, and cultural record, these memorable addresses include inspiring selections from such noted figures as John F. Kennedy, Jr., Oprah Winfrey, Nobel laureates Elie Wiesel and Toni Morrison, Kermit the Frog, and many more.
With the success of such books as Dr. Seuss's Oh! The Places You'll Go and Bill Cosby's Congratulations! Now What?, Onward! is sure to become a perennial favorite of graduates everywhere.
