“Acceptance Speech”

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Title“Acceptance Speech”
Year for Search2017
AuthorsMyles, Eileen(b. 1949)
Secondary TitleI Want a President: Transcript of a Rally November 6, 2016
Pagination42-45
Date Published2017
PublisherDancing Foxes Press
Place PublishedBrooklyn, NY
ISBN Number978-1-4399-1623-0
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

The speech the author would give upon being elected President saying that she will establish a Department of Women and a Department of Culture, make the White House a homeless shelter, provide free education and transportation, and begin the process of banning cars, among other changes. The female author, who uses the pronoun they, ran an “openly female” write-in campaign for President of the United States in 1991-1992. The poem “I Want a President,” by Zoe Leonard (b. 1961) was written in honor of the campaign.
Additional Publishers

Rpt. as “Acceptance Speech (Nov 6 2016).” In Who Will Speak for America? Ed. Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2018), 15-18. 
URLhttp://dfpress.us/Transcript_IWAP%201_13%20-%20for%20print.pdf
Info Notes

Proceeds from the book were donated to the Southern Poverty Law Center. 
Title Note

Rpt. as “Acceptance Speech (Nov 6 2016).” In Who Will Speak for America?
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Author Note

Female author (b. 1949)
Full Text

2017 Myles, Eileen (b. 1949). “Acceptance Speech.” I Want a President: Transcript of a Rally November 6, 2016 (Brooklyn, NY: Dancing Foxes Press, 2017), 42-45. http://dfpress.us/Transcript_IWAP%201_13%20-%20for%20print.pdf. Rpt. as "Acceptance Speech (Nov 6 2016).” In Who Will Speak for America? Ed. Stephanie Feldman and Nathaniel Popkin (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2018), 15-18. Proceeds from the book were donated to the Southern Poverty Law Center. PSt 

The speech the author would give upon being elected President saying that she will establish a Department of Women and a Department of Culture, make the White House a homeless shelter, provide free education and transportation, and begin the process of banning cars, among other changes. The female author, who uses the pronoun they, ran an “openly female” write-in campaign for President of the United States in 1991-1992. The poem “I Want a President,” by Zoe Leonard (b. 1961) was written in honor of the campaign. Female author.