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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... LINCOLN : The House Divided Speech 208 The Lincoln - Douglas Debates 216 JOHN BROWN : Last Statement to the Court 224 ABRAHAM LINCOLN : The Cooper Union Speech Go Down , Moses 227 238 THE CIVIL WAR DANIEL DECATUR EMMETT : Dixie ABRAHAM ...
... LINCOLN : The Gettysburg Address ABRAHAM LINCOLN : Second Inaugural Address WALT WHITMAN : I Hear America Singing WALT WHITMAN : O Captain ! My Captain ! FREDERICK DOUGLASS : Speech to the American Anti - Slavery Society 243 244 250 252 ...
... Lincoln Walks at Midnight 413 VACHEL LINDSAY : The Leaden - Eyed 414 ALFRED BRYAN AND AL PIANTADOSI : I Didn't Raise 415 My Boy to Be a Soldier ALAN SEEGER : I Have a Rendezvous with Death 416 WOODROW WILSON : War Message to Congress ...
... Lincoln or Frederick Douglass ; there have been no individual statements on public policy that attain the moral integrity of Learned Hand on " The Spirit of Liberty " or Margaret Chase Smith disassociating herself from the depreda ...