The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 2000 M09 5 - 656 páginas 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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... race . The poetry of recent years is not as alienating as popular music but I have found no entry that can justly stand alongside the writings of John Greenleaf Whittier , Walt Whitman , Langston Hughes , and Robert Frost . American ...
... racial segregation , for advancing the rights of women - have reminded the public that " all men are created equal . " Wherever people have fought against undemocratic regimes , they have argued , using Jefferson's words.
... race to provide for , whose fathers we shall doubt of . Look on this picture and weep over it ! and if there yet remains one thoughtless wretch who believes it not , let him suffer it unlamented .... THOMAS PAINE LIBERTY TREE In ...
... race of men , whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world . In 1782 , a French - American farmer and naturalist published a dozen essays , which he called Letters from an American Farmer . This book won ...
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