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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... Civil Disobedience 125 HENRY DAVID THOREAU : Walden 134 JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER : The Barefoot Boy 140 THOMAS CORWIN : Against the Mexican War 143 HORACE MANN : The Case for Public Schools 148 Seneca viii ☆ Contents.
... Boy Blue 322 BOOKER T. WASHINGTON : The Atlanta Exposition 323 Address JOHN HOPE : Reply to Booker T. Washington 329 JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN : Dissent from 330 Plessy v . Ferguson THEODORE ROOSEVELT : In Praise of the Strenuous Life 333 ...
... Boy to Be a Soldier ALAN SEEGER : I Have a Rendezvous with Death 416 WOODROW WILSON : War Message to Congress 417 GEORGE NORRIS : Against Entry into the War 422 GEORGE M. COHAN : Over There 426 IRVING BERLIN : Oh , How I Hate to Get Up ...
... boy or girl who did not know " ... there is no joy in Mudville ; / Mighty Casey has struck out " ? Perhaps in another gen- eration , another editor will find poetry that has the same popular appeal , the same emotional connection with ...
... Boys have their Playthings as well as young Ones ; the Difference is only in the Price . Haste makes Waste . Love your Neighbour ; yet don't pull down your Hedge . A Child thinks 20 Shillings and 20 Years can scarce Colonial Days and ...