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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... Spirit of Liberty KARL SHAPIRO : Elegy for a Dead Soldier AFTER WORLD WAR II 498 500 BERNARD BARUCH : The Baruch Plan for Control of 507 Atomic Energy DAVID LILIENTHAL : Confirmation Hearings 510 HUBERT HUMPHREY : A Plea for Civil ...
... Spirit of Liberty " or Margaret Chase Smith disassociating herself from the depreda- tions of Senator Joseph McCarthy . Our presidents in the closing decades of the twentieth century were known more for their slo- gans , sound " bites ...
... spirit , this col- lection offers its readers a respite from the bland and the banal . It contains ample doses of principled rhetoric , angry demands , joy- ous verse , and uplifting sentiment . Although the longer pieces had to be ...
... spirit of the British Constitution ; read the histories of ancient ages ; contemplate the great examples of Greece and Rome ; set before us the conduct of our own British ancestors , who have defended for us the inherent rights of ...
... spirit it may cost , I am willing to know the whole truth ; to know the worst and to provide for it . I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided ; and that is the lamp of experience . I know of no way of judging of the future but ...