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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... Land Is Your Land 478 E. B. WHITE : Freedom 479 JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE , JR .: High Flight 485 CHARLES A. ZIMMERMAN : Anchors Aweigh 487 FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT : The Four Freedoms 488 FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT : War Message to Congress ...
... Land Is Your Land " were sung by young and old alike , played often on the radio , and remained as part of our national memory for many years . They don't write them like that anymore . The popular songs of recent years have short lives ...
... land . On board were 102 passengers . Their destina- tion was the area at the mouth of the Hudson River , but because of rough seas they missed their goal and anchored in what is now Provincetown Har- bor off Cape Cod . Since it was ...
... land . I in the name of God Amen . We whose names are underwriten , the loyall subjects of our dread soveraigne Lord King James by the grace of God , of great Britaine , Franc , & Ireland king , defender of the faith , & c . Haveing ...
... land , they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven , who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean , and delivered them from all the periles and miseries therof , againe to set their feete on the firme and stable ...