The Speech (Sanders book)

The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class

Author	Bernie Sanders
Language	English
Publisher	PublicAffairs, Bold Type Books
Publication date	March 1, 2011; 2015
Publication place	United States
Pages	288
ISBN	978-1-56858-554-3

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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]