The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 2000 M09 5 - 656 pages The American Reader is a stirring and memorable anthology that captures the many facets of American culture and history in prose and verse. The 200 poems, speeches, songs, essays, letters, and documents were chosen both for their readability and for their significance. These are the words that have inspired, enraged, delighted, chastened, and comforted Americans in days gone by. Gathered here are the writings that illuminate -- with wit, eloquence, and sometimes sharp words -- significant aspects of national conciousness. They reflect the part that all Americans -- black and white, native born and immigrant, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American, poor and wealthy -- have played in creating the nation's character. |
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... JOHN BROWN ROBERT FROST WOODY GUTHRIE LANGSTON HUGHES BETTY FRIEDAN AND OTHERS WHO HAVE INSPIRED , DELIGHTED , ENRAGED , AND ROUSED AMERICA Edited by DIANE RAVITCH THE AMERICAN READER THE AMERICAN READER WORDS THAT MOVED A. Front Cover.
... JOHN ADAMS : Liberty and Knowledge JOHN DICKINSON : The Liberty Song Chief Logan's Lament The Slaves ' Appeal to the Royal Governor of Massachusetts PATRICK HENRY : Speech to the Second Virginia Convention THOMAS JEFFERSON : The ...
... JOHN HOWARD PAYNE : Home , Sweet Home CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE : A Visit from St. Nicholas FRANCES WRIGHT : The Meaning of Patriotism in America DANIEL WEBSTER : Against Nullification GEORGE PERKINS MORRIS : Woodman , Spare That Tree OLIVER ...
... JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER : Stanzas for the Times 181 THEODORE S. WRIGHT : Predjudice Against the 184 Colored Man ANGELINA GRIMKÉ : Bearing Witness Against Slavery 188 HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET : An Address to the Slaves of the United States ...
... John Brown Song JULIA WARD HOWE : Battle Hymn of the Republic JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER : Barbara Frietchie ABRAHAM LINCOLN : The Gettysburg Address ABRAHAM LINCOLN : Second Inaugural Address WALT WHITMAN : I Hear America Singing WALT ...