The American Reader: Words that Moved a NationHarper Collins, 7. 12. 2010. - 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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... called the Pilgrims. The colonists had negotiated an agreement with the Virginia Com- pany of London that gave them the right to locate wherever they chose in that company's vast holdings and to govern themselves. Forty-one of the male ...
... called a licentiousness not to be tolerated. It is said that it brings the rulers of the people into contempt so that their authority is not regarded, and so that in the end the laws cannot be put in execution. These, I say, and such as ...
... called a libel, or scarce any person safe from being called to account as a libeler, for Moses, meek as he was, libeled Cain; and who is it that has not libeled the devil? For, according to Mr. Attorney, it is no justification to say ...
... called this same Mr. Ware before him, by a constable, to answer for a breach of the Sabbath Day Acts, or that of profane swearing. As soon as he had finished, Mr. Ware asked him if he had done. He replied: “Yes.” “Well, then,” said Mr ...
... called it Macaroni. CHORUS : Yankee Doodle, keep it up, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Mind the music and the step And with the girls be handy. Father and I went down to camp, Along with Captain Gooding, And there we saw the men and boys As thick ...
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The Federalist No 1 | 63 |
Farewell Address | 71 |
Against Imperialism | 337 |
THE PROGRESSIVE | 345 |
Women and Economics | 354 |
Should Higher Education for Women | 360 |
Prejudice Against Women | 369 |
Advice to a Black Schoolgirl | 378 |
Take Me Out to the Ball Game | 384 |
The Preacher and the Slave | 385 |
Hail Columbia | 77 |
The StarSpangled Banner | 83 |
The Meaning of Patriotism in America | 90 |
Woodman Spare That Tree | 96 |
REFORM AND EXPANSION | 103 |
On Top of Old Smoky | 111 |
A Psalm of Life | 118 |
Civil Disobedience | 125 |
Walden | 134 |
The Barefoot Boy | 140 |
The Case for Public Schools | 148 |
Address to the Ohio | 159 |
A Disappointed Woman | 169 |
Walkers Appeal | 175 |
Stanzas for the Times | 181 |
Bearing Witness Against Slavery | 188 |
The Present Crisis | 198 |
The House Divided Speech | 208 |
The LincolnDouglas Debates | 216 |
Last Statement to the Court | 224 |
Go Down Moses | 238 |
Dixie | 243 |
The Bonnie Blue Flag | 250 |
The John Brown Song | 256 |
Second Inaugural Address | 263 |
The Blue and the Gray | 275 |
The Ballad of John Henry | 285 |
Speech at the National | 295 |
The New Colossus | 301 |
When de Con Pones Hot | 308 |
The Pledge of Allegiance | 315 |
America the Beautiful | 321 |
Reply to Booker T Washington | 329 |
Protest to President Wilson | 394 |
Anne Rutledge | 401 |
Solidarity Forever | 408 |
The LeadenEyed | 414 |
Against Entry into the War | 422 |
The Marines Hymn | 429 |
The Right to Ones Body | 435 |
A Korean Discovers New York | 441 |
O Black and Unknown Bards | 447 |
THE DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR II | 457 |
Second Inaugural | 464 |
So Long Its Been Good to Know Yuh | 470 |
God Bless America | 476 |
High Flight | 485 |
War Message to | 492 |
The Spirit of Liberty | 498 |
The Baruch Plan for Control of | 507 |
A Plea for Civil Rights | 513 |
Declaration of Conscience | 522 |
The Silent Generation | 529 |
Farewell Address | 535 |
Inaugural Address | 549 |
Address to the Broadcasting Industry | 555 |
Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream | 564 |
Speech at the Berlin Wall | 576 |
We Shall Overcome | 583 |
The Feminine Mystique | 589 |
On the Death of | 597 |
The Wilderness Idea | 603 |
The American Idea | 610 |
Author Index | 619 |
Copyright Acknowledgments | 625 |