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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... face ; and the whole countrie , full of woods and thickets , represented a wild and savage heiw . If they looked behind them , ther was the mighty ocean which they had passed , and was now as a maine barr and goulfe to seperate them ...
... face ? Are your wife and children destitute of a bed to lie on , or bread to live on ? Have you lost a parent or a child by their hands , and yourself the ruined and wretched survivor ? If you have not , then you are not a judge of ...