This is the first book-length study of Helen Keller's public speaking. It contains rhetorical analysis about how a person who was sightless but seen, deaf but heard learned to communicate, and how she gave public speeches for nearly 80 years inspiring others with her vision for a better tomorrow. The analysis, texts of various speeches on a broad range of subjects, a chronology of her speeches, and bibliography will be helpful to students and teachers of speech and all those interested in Helen Keller.

IllustrationsSeries ForewordForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsVisions of a Better Tomorrow: An Analysis of Helen Keller's SpeakingIntroductionRescued from Darkness: The Gift of LanguageThe World Seen Through Fingertips: Characteristics of Keller's SpeakingJust Because I Cannot See Doesn't Mean I Cannot KnowNot a Muted Voice: The Effectiveness of Keller's SpeakingConclusionA Voice For Social Reform: Texts of Selected SpeechesSpeech at AndoverAddress at Mt. AiryOur Duties to the BlindThe Heaviest Burden of the BlindThe Conservation of EyesightThe Gift of SpeechA New Light Is ComingMenace of the Militarist ProgramStrike Against WarOnward ComradesThe Vaudeville CircuitSpeech to Lions Clubs InternationalAddress to the Teachers of the DeafCommencement Address to Queen Margaret CollegeAddress to the New Church of Scottland (Swedenborgian)Address in St. Bride's Parish ChurchAddress to the National Institute for the BlindAddress to the National Council of WomanSpeech to Knights of the BlindChronology of Selected Major SpeechesSelected Bibliography on KellerNotesIndex