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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... stand alongside the writings of John Greenleaf Whittier , Walt Whitman , Langston Hughes , and Robert Frost . American schools used to put great emphasis on recitations , and students memorized the poems they xviii Introduction.
... stand ourselves and our times . In preparing this book , I incurred many personal debts . I owe my deepest gratitude to Eileen Sclan , my assistant , and to those who helped her : Mary Greenfield , Thalassa Curtis , Indira Mehta , Kelly ...
... stand half amased at this poore peoples presente condition ; and so I thinke will the reader too , when he well considers the same . Being thus passed the vast ocean , and a sea of troubles before in their prepa- ration ( as may be ...
... 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 maine ...
... occasions and often just to annoy the British and their American friends . People quickly took up the song's credo : " By uniting we stand , by dividing we fall . " Come join hand in hand brave Americans all , And 28 The American Reader.