The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 5. 9. 2000 - Počet stran: 656 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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... TRUTH : Address to the Ohio 159 Women's Rights Convention STEPHEN FOSTER : Oh ! Susanna 161 STEPHEN FOSTER : Old Folks at Home 162 ELIZABETH CADY STANTON : Address to the 163 Legislature of New York on Women's Rights LUCY STONE : A ...
... truth of the printed statements . The jurors acquitted Zenger , persuaded by Hamilton that the charges against the royal governor were true . It was a signal victory for freedom of the press in the English colonies . At the time of ...
... truth , I hope they may with safety both speak and write their sentiments of the conduct of men of power ; I mean of that part of their conduct only which affects the liberty or property of the people under their administration ; were ...
... right — the liberty of both exposing and opposing arbitrary power ( in these parts of the world at least ) by speaking and writing truth . . . . JAMES OTIS A DEMAND TO LIMIT SEARCH AND SEIZURE A 18 The American Reader.
... truth , liberty , justice , and benevolence are its everlasting basis ; and if these could be removed , the super- structure is overthrown of course . Let the colleges join their harmony in the same delightful Colonial Days and the ...