From the Podium: Selected Speeches, Volume II

Since 1903, The Commonwealth Club of California has been an important part of the landscape and history of the San Francisco Bay Area, California, and the nation, responding to the ever important need for public dialogue between people of differing viewpoints.The Commonwealth Club has hosted thousands of speakers of national and international renown, including Nobel laureates, political leaders, educators, authors, journalists, religious, civil rights and social advocates, and almost every U.S. president beginning with Teddy Roosevelt. The list of Commonwealth Club speakers over the years reads like a history book of the 20th century, and includes the powerful and the oppressed, the liberal and conservative.With 17,000 members, the Commonwealth Club is the nation's oldest and largest organization of its kind. 25,000 people attended the Club's nearly 350 programs last year, underlining its role as the nation's premier public affairs forum.This book contains some of the best speeches given from the podium of The Commonwealth Club in the last year.