The Speech (Sanders book)

The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class
AuthorBernie Sanders
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPublicAffairs, Bold Type Books
Publication date
March 1, 2011; 2015
Publication placeUnited States
Pages288
ISBN978-1-56858-554-3

The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class is a 2011 political book authored by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and published by PublicAffairs. In 2015, it was reprinted by Bold Type Books with a new foreword.[1]

The book is a transcript of the filibuster Sanders delivered on the U.S. Senate floor on December 10, 2010, against the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010. The speech lasted 8 hours and 37 minutes.[2]

  1. ^ Sanders, Bernie (March 2011). "The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class". Google Books. ISBN 9781568586847. Retrieved February 5, 2020.
  2. ^ Toeplitz, Shira (December 10, 2010). "Sanders's last stand". POLITICO.