The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 05/09/2000 - 656 páginas 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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... 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 Contents ix.
... : Grass 431 EUGENE VICTOR DEBS : Statement to the Court 432 MARGARET SANGER : The Right to One's Body 435 EDNA ST . VINCENT MILLAY : First Fig Poems of Angel Island 439 440 441 444 445 446 YOUNGHILL KANG : A Korean Discovers xii Contents.
... court the trouble of hearing anything that I could say in this cause .... There is heresy in law as well as in religion , and both have changed very much ; and we well know that it is not two centuries ago that a man would have burned ...
... court , and you , gentle- men of the jury , is not of small nor private concern ; it is not the cause of a poor printer , nor of New York alone , which you are now trying . No ! It may , in its consequence , affect every free man that ...
... court when the British government empowered customs officials to search any house for smuggled goods . Rather than supervise these orders , Otis resigned his position and , in February 1761 , argued in court against these " writs of ...
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