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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... minds ; marketing experts divine what we want before we have lost interest in what we already have . This is an age of disposable ideas , of politics - as- entertainment , of a popular culture that celebrates violence and sensationalism ...
... their goods ashore and leave them . Let it also be considered what weake hopes of supply and succoure they left behinde them , that might bear up their minds in this sade condition and trialls they were under 6 The American Reader.
Words That Moved a Nation Diane Ravitch. minds in this sade condition and trialls they were under ; and they could not but be very smale . It is true , indeed , the affections and love of their brethren at Leyden was cordiall and entire ...
... mind is worse than death . In 1733 , John Peter Zenger began publishing The New York Weekly Jour- nal , which criticized the policies of the colonial governor . A year later , Zenger was arrested for seditious libel . He languished in ...
... mind is worse than death ; and yet we know there have been those in all ages who , for the sakes of preferment or some imaginary honor , have freely lent a helping hand to oppress , nay , to destroy , their country . This brings to my mind ...