The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationThe 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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... Address 549 PETE SEEGER : Where Have All the Flowers Gone ? 553 NEWTON MINOW : Address to the Broadcasting Industry 555 TOM HAYDEN : The Port Huron Statement 560 ED MCCURDY : Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream xiv Contents.
... Dream 564 RACHEL CARSON : Silent Spring 565 MARTIN LUTHER KING , JR .: Letter from 568 Birmingham City Jail JOHN F. KENNEDY : Speech at the Berlin Wall 576 MARTIN LUTHER KING , JR .: The March on Washington 578 We Shall Overcome 583 O ...