Table of Contents for Graduation Day : The Best of America's Commencement Speeches

Introduction: We Don't Want You Out Here

xi

George Plimpton

I MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE

3

(58)

Jodie Foster

3

(14)

Russell Baker

17

(7)

Sting

24

(6)

Dan Rather

30

(9)

Ted Turner

39

(4)

Ben and Jerry

43

(8)

George Lucas and Steven Spielberg

51

(4)

Carl Sagan

55

(6)

II BE A HUMAN BEING FIRST

61

(58)

John Grisham

61

(4)

Barbara Bush

65

(4)

Colin Powell

69

(10)

Robert Redford

79

(5)

Stephen Breyer

84

(8)

Mario Cuomo

92

(6)

Ann Richards

98

(9)

Alice Walker

107

(12)

III REMEMBER THE PAST, EMBRACE THE FUTURE

119

(62)

Bill Clinton

119

(9)

Ken Burns

128

(10)

Madeleine Albright

138

(6)

Tom Brokaw

144

(6)

Ronald Reagan

150

(7)

Susan Sontag

157

(5)

Federico Pena

162

(7)

Toni Morrison

169

(12)

IV YOU WILL SUCCEED

181

(44)

Garrison Keillor

181

(5)

Andy Rooney

186

(10)

Patrick Stewart

196

(9)

Hank Aaron

205

(3)

Ross Perot

208

(17)

V A LOOK BACK

225

(38)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

225

(5)

W.E.B. Du Bois

230

(4)

George C. Marshall

234

(4)

John F. Kennedy

238

(4)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

242

(5)

Lyndon B. Johnson

247

(3)

Gloria Steinem

250

(13)

Editors' Note

263