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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... 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 Declaration of Independence 31 33 THOMAS JEFFERSON : A Bill for ...
... 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 WHITMAN : O ...
... Song 430 CARL SANDBURG : Grass 431 EUGENE VICTOR DEBS : Statement to the Court 432 MARGARET SANGER : The Right to One's Body 435 EDNA ST . VINCENT MILLAY : First Fig Poems of Angel Island 439 440 441 444 445 446 YOUNGHILL KANG : A ...
... songs that illumi- nate - with wit , eloquence , or sharp words - significant aspects of American life . When I first assembled this collection , the imagined audience of The American Reader was a group of family or friends , sharing ...
... Songs were once shared by children , parents , grandparents , and entire communities ; popular songs like George M. Cohan's " Over There , " Irving Berlin's " God Bless America , " and Woody Guthrie's " This Land Is Your Land " were ...
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