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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... PUBLISHED 1991 . SECOND PERENNIAL EDITION PUBLISHED 2000 . Designed by Michael Mendelsohn at MM Design 2000 , Inc. Printed on acid - free paper Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data The American reader : words that ...
... published in 1991. The first edition included a selection of several pieces written after 1970. At the time , I said that I was taking a chance on recent works , trying to identify those that " speak to the age of which they are part ...
... published in Philadelphia as the work of a fictional Richard Saunders ( and thus " Poor Richard " ) , appeared annually from 1733 until 1758. They were immensely popular among the colonists ; typically they contained calendars , weather ...
... published articles in the Boston Gazette denouncing the Stamp Act . These articles , published together as A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law , are excerpted below . Although critical of British policies , Adams defended the ...
... published in 1767-68 . The Letters helped to turn public opin- ion against the Townshend Acts , which Imposed new taxes on the colonies . Dickinson was a Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress . He opposed the Declaration of ...