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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... Present Crisis 198 FREDERICK DOUGLASS : Independence Day Speech at Rochester 202 ABRAHAM LINCOLN : The House Divided Speech 208 The Lincoln - Douglas Debates 216 JOHN BROWN : Last Statement to the Court 224 ABRAHAM LINCOLN : The Cooper ...
... present and kept it at his bedside , read- ing a different selection every night ; he claimed that like potato chips , " You can't stop with just one . " In choosing the contents , I was guided by a principle that Robert Frost described ...
... present time , I am unable to identify any contemporary poems that are known and loved by large numbers of ordinary Americans . With few exceptions , the political speeches of the recent past seem to me to be singularly devoid of ...
... present . I make no claim that these are the only pieces that should be remembered . I could easily have produced several volumes , rather than only one . The number of impassioned speeches , moving poems , eloquent essays , and won ...
... present , uninterested in and oblivious to anything that happened before today , indifferent to any words except those they hear in movies , videos , the radio , and television . But reading is not about to disappear . Despite the ease ...