The America I Envision is an anthology that highlights some of the most notable speeches from America's long history of political conventions. From Benjamin Franklin's 1787 agreement to the Constitution "with all its faults," to Barry Goldwater's 1964 insistence that "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice," to the speeches kicking off the 2000 presidential campaigns, this collection reflects over 200 years of change in the American political landscape and in the art of political oratory. The America I Envision includes speeches given by: Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Abraham Lincoln, William Jennings Bryan, Eugene Debs, Claude Bowers, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hubert H. Humphrey, John F. Kennedy, Nelson Rockefeller, Barry Goldwater, Richard M. Nixon, Barbara Jordan, Edward Kennedy, Mario Cuomo, Jesse Jackson, George Bush, Mary Fisher, Patrick J. Buchanan, Ronald Reagan, Ralph Nader, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Joseph Lieberman, and Al Gore.