Why freedom matters : the spirit of the Declaration of Independence in prose, poetry, and song from 1776 to the present
Item details
- ISBN: 0761132686
- ISBN: 9780761132684
- ISBN: 0761131655 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780761131656 (pbk.)
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xvii, 413 p. ; 24 cm. - Publisher: New York : Workman Pub., c2003.
Contents / Notes
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | In the course of human events: Argonauts of 1776 / David McCullough -- Exchange of letters / Abigail and John Adams -- Introduction to dramatic reading of the Declaration of Independence / Morgan Freeman -- Declaration of Independence -- Gift outright / Robert Frost -- Public speech / Chief Seattle -- God bless America / Irving Berlin -- This land is your land / Woody Guthrie -- Bicentennial speech / Gerald R. Ford -- Speech at Independence Hall / Abraham Lincoln -- Let America be America again / Langston Hughes -- American dream / Martin Luther King Jr. -- I am a patriot / Steven Van Zandt -- Speech on the Dred Scott decision / Abraham Lincoln -- Killer angels / Michael Shaara -- Remarkable Andrew / Dalton Trumbo -- What July fourth means to me / Ronald Reagan -- Reasoning the fourth / New York Times editorial -- Life: Letter to Aunt Fannie Adoue / Marion Lee "Sandy" Kempner -- Prologue: a letter to Thoreau / E.O. Wilson -- October fullness / Pablo Neruda -- Cell door closes / Arthur Koestler -- Letter to Olga / Vaclav Havel -- Letter to president Franklin D. Roosevelt / Arthur W. Mitchell -- Diary of a young girl / Anne Frank -- Four freedoms / Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Perils of indifference / Elie Wiesel -- Freedom from fear / Aung San Suu Kyi -- Oh freedom / Traditional Negro spiritual -- Inaugural address / John F. Kennedy -- Nobel Prize acceptance speech: to endure and prevail / William Faulkner -- Song of myself / Walt Whitman -- New colossus / Emma Lazarus -- Chimes of freedom / Bob Dylan -- Women in exile / Mahnaz Afkhami -- Farewell address / Jimmy Carter -- Glimpse of home / Kathryn D. Sullivan -- Teach your children / Graham Nash -- Liberty: Ain't I a woman / Sojourner Truth -- Democracy in America / Alexis De Tocqueville -- Declaration of sentiments and resolutions -- Courtroom speech on women's right to vote / Susan B. Anthony -- Letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton / Susan B. Anthony -- Speech before Congress on women's suffrage / Carrie Chapman Catt -- Still I rise / Maya Angelou -- Letter to his former master, Captain Thomas Auld / Frederick Douglass -- Down by the riverside / Traditional Negro spiritual -- Emancipation proclamation / Abraham Lincoln -- Address to the Niagara conference / W.E.B. du Bois -- Brown v. board of education / U.S. Supreme Court -- My dungeon shook: letter to my nephew on the 100th anniversary of the emancipation / James Baldwin -- Shed a little light / James Taylor -- Reflections on the bicentennial of the United States constitution / Thurgood Marshall -- Speech from the pulpit / William J. Clinton -- Mr. Smith goes to Washington / Sidney Buchman -- Special message to the congress: the American promise / Lyndon B. Johnson -- Letter to Theodore Roosevelt / Mother Jones -- Letter to E.L. Barr Jr. / Cesar E. Chavez -- Letter to baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn / Curt Flood -- Revolution will not be televised / Gil Scott-Heron -- Letter to Charles McCarthy / Kurt Vonnegut -- Censors / D.H. Lawrence -- Spirit of liberty / Judge Learned Hand -- I am an American / Steve Connell -- Pursuit of happiness: Self-reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Road not taken / Robert Frost -- Courage / Harriet McBryde Johnson -- Letter to his son ./ William Carlos Williams -- Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young / Mary Schmich -- Poem of remembrances for a girl or boy of these states / Walt Whitman -- Letter to Walt Whitman / Mark Twain -- Commencement address at James Madison University / William Safire -- Myth of Sisyphus / Albert Camus -- I believe / John D. Rockefeller Jr. -- Something for nothing / Neil Peart and Geddy Lee -- Left-handed commencement address at Mills College / Ursula K. Le Guin -- America the beautiful / Katherine Lee Bates -- I have a dream / Martin Luther King Jr. -- Our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor: Pay attention kids / Robert J. Samuelson -- America / Henry Dumas -- Great society / Lyndon B. Johnson -- Talkin' bout a revolution / Tracy Chapman -- What America means to me / Pearl S. Buck -- American cause / Archibald MacLeish -- Open letter to the poet Archibald MacLeish who has forsaken his Massachusetts farm to make propaganda for freedom / Carl Sandburg -- Let that old-time freedom ring out / John Balzar -- Why I refused the national medal for the arts / Adrienne Rich -- Congressional library / Amy Lowell -- Democratic national convention keynote address: who then will speak for the common good / Barbara Jordan -- Commencement address at Northern Arizona University / Wilma Mankiller -- Speech on senate floor: declaration of conscience / Margaret Chase Smith -- Commencement address at the college of Santa Fe / Tom Brokaw -- I will live and survive / Irina Ratushinskaya -- America's challenge: revitalizing our national community / Bill Bradley -- Commencement address at Vassar College / Tony Kushner -- To the patriots and the activist poets / Ariana Waynes -- Closing argument in the Henry Sweet trial / Clarence Darrow -- American President / Aaron Sorkin -- I sing of change / Niyi Osundare -- Keepers of democracy / Eleanor Roosevelt -- Generations of lost angles found / Beau Sia -- Devotions upon emergent occasions, number XVII / John Donne -- Constitution of the United States of America -- Universal declaration of human rights. |
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