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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... true that some people — and what appears to be growing numbers of young people , schooled to appreciate only what is contemporary - live entirely in the present , uninterested in and oblivious to anything that happened before today ...
... true , indeed , the affections and love of their brethren at Leyden was cordiall and entire towards them , but they had litle power to help them , or them selves ; and how the case stode betweene them and the marchants at their coming ...
... true ; he further insisted , against the settled precedent , that the jury and not the judge should decide the truth of the printed statements . The jurors acquitted Zenger , persuaded by Hamilton that the charges against the royal ...
... true , have been much less successful than the great . They have seldom found either leisure or opportu- nity to form a union and exert their strength ; ignorant as they were of arts and letters , they have seldom been able to frame and ...
... true map of man . Let us hear the dignity of his nature , and the noble rank he holds among the works of God - that consent- ing to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust , as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from ...