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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... things worth reading , Or do things worth the writing . -Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac Introduction Contents COLONIAL DAYS AND THE REVOLUTION The Mayflower Compact.
... but stored lovingly in the " heart . " Certain things are a pleasure to memorize , a plea- sure that one may own and enjoy forever . ( How well I recall tramping around the perimeter of Lake Waban in Wellesley , Introduction xxi.
... things stand upon them with a wetherbeaten 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 ...
... things are easy to Industry , All things are difficult to Sloth . Would you persuade , speak of Interest , not of Reason . Teach your child to hold his tongue , he'll learn fast enough to speak . He that cannot obey , cannot command ...
... things worth reading , or do things worth the writing . Sell not virtue to purchase wealth , nor Liberty to purchase power . The ancients tell us what is best ; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest . Drive thy Business , let ...