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FIFTEEN - The Secret of Success in Public Speaking
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The attitude of those in the hall when Booker gave his Atlanta speech was best expressed, he felt, by Mr. James Creelman, the noted war correspondent. He said that Booker delivered an oration that made a new epoch in the history of the South. he asserted that Mr. Washington had electrified the audience and the response was as if it had come from the throat of a whirlwind. He also said the Booker was the foremost man of his race in America and that “not even Gladstone himself could have pleaded a cause with more consummate power than did this angular Negro standing in the a nimbus of sunshine, surrounded by men who once fought to keep his race in bondage.”
After the Atlanta speech, Booker accepted some invitations to speak in public, but only those that would take him into territory where he thought it would pay to plead the cause of his race. He understood that he should talk about his life work and the needs of his people and not speak as a professional lecturer for financial gain. However, he could never understand why people wanted to hear him speak. He always suffered intensely from nervousness and it always took him about ten minutes to master the audience, something that was ultimately a great delight to him. While he was speaking, Booker would.......
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In this chapter, Booker juxtaposes his success at
public speaking with his sense of success when he needs rest. He has an innate.......
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