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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... Liberty and Knowledge JOHN DICKINSON : The Liberty Song Chief Logan's Lament The Slaves ' Appeal to the Royal Governor of Massachusetts PATRICK HENRY : Speech to the Second Virginia Convention THOMAS JEFFERSON : The Declaration 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 Rights 513 ...
... Liberty : " Give me your tired , your poor , Your huddled masses , yearning to breathe free , / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore . / Send these , the homeless , tempest - tost to me , / I lift my lamp beside the golden door ...
... 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 not that drive thee . Each year one vicious habit rooted out , In time might make the worst Man ...
... or offspring , never to dulness , weakness , or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation . 13. HUMILITY . Imitate Jesus and Socrates . DEFENSE OF FREEDOM OF THE PRESS The loss of liberty Colonial Days and the Revolution 13.