The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 05.09.2000 - 656 Seiten 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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... HAND : The Spirit of Liberty KARL SHAPIRO : Elegy for a Dead Soldier AFTER WORLD WAR II 498 500 BERNARD BARUCH : The Baruch Plan for Control of 507 Atomic Energy DAVID LILIENTHAL : Confirmation Hearings 510 HUBERT HUMPHREY : A Plea for ...
... Hand on " The Spirit of Liberty " or Margaret Chase Smith disassociating herself from the depreda- tions of Senator Joseph McCarthy . Our presidents in the closing decades of the twentieth century were known more for their slo- gans ...
... hand to oppress , nay , to destroy , their country . This brings to my mind that saying of the immortal Brutus , when he looked upon the creatures of Caesar , who were very great men , but by no means good men : " You Romans , " said ...
... hand , and villainy , on the other , as this writ of assistance is . It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power , the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law , that ever was found in an ...
... and often just to annoy the British and their American friends . People quickly took up the song's credo : " By uniting we stand , by dividing we fall . " Come join hand in hand brave Americans all , And 28 The American Reader.
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