The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 5. 9. 2000. - 656 страница 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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... seldom speak without reference to focus groups or pollsters to learn what people want to hear ; fearful of making a mistake , they use talking points or a text pre- pared by consultants and writers . Pollsters tell us what Introduction xix.
Words That Moved a Nation Diane Ravitch. pared by consultants and writers . Pollsters tell us what we think before we have had a chance to make up our minds ; marketing experts divine what we want before we have lost interest in what we ...
... 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 good throughout . Wink at small faults ...
... tell you half I saw , They kept up such a smother , So I took my hat off , made a bow And scampered home to mother . Yankee Doodle is the tune Americans delight in , " Twill do to whistle , sing or play And just the thing for fightin ...
... of our contest shall be obtained , we must fight ! I repeat it , sir , we must fight ! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us ! They tell us , sir , that we are weak Colonial Days and the Revolution 35.