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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... Woman 169 EMILY DICKINSON : Success 171 PRELUDE TO WAR DAVID WALKER : Walker's Appeal WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON : Prospectus for 175 179 The Liberator JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER : Stanzas for the Times 181 THEODORE S. WRIGHT : Predjudice ...
... woman . Tyranny , like hell , is not easily conquered ; yet we have this consolation with us , that the harder the conflict , the more glorious the triumph . What we obtain too cheap , we esteem too lightly ; ' tis dearness only that ...
... woman , Joan of Arc . Would that heaven might inspire some Jersey maid to spirit up her countrymen , and save her fair fellow sufferers from ravage and ravishment ! ... ... I call not upon a few , but upon all : not on this state or ...