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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... speeches , or songs written during the past thirty years that both match the literary quality of the earlier selections and resonate in the national consciousness as they do . It seems to me and I may be wrong — that cultural ...
... speeches of the recent past seem to me to be singularly devoid of lasting significance . There have been no public declarations that approach the dignified cadences of Abraham Lincoln or Frederick Douglass ; there have been no ...
... speeches , poems , arguments and songs , the words that became an enduring part of American culture and that deserve to be recalled , even recited out loud . As choices were made first in 1990 and then again in 2000 , the guiding ...
... speech available for instant recall . When beautiful speeches and poems are memorized , they remain with you as a lifelong resource . Words that are learned " by heart " become one's personal treasure , available when needed . In some ...