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New York : Hyperion, 2002.
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xxiii, 663 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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New York : Hyperion, 2002.
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Presents a selection of patriotic speeches, poems, song lyrics, and historical documents, including the Bill of Rights, the U.S. Constitution, the Pledge of Allegiance, and other writings emblematic of American pride and spirit.
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Table of Contents
Flag --
Star-Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key and John Stafford Smith, 1814 5 --
Pledge of Allegiance, 1892 7 --
Battle Cry of Freedom, George Frederick Root, c. 1861 8 --
Flag Goes By, Henry Holcomb Bennett, c. 1900 9 --
You're a Grand Old Flag, George M. Cohan, 1906 10 --
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnett, 319 U.S. 624 (1943) 11 --
Flags, Gwendolyn Brooks, 1944 15 --
Mike Christian Story, John McCain, 1971 16 --
Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989) 18 --
U.S. Blues, Grateful Dead, 1973 21 --
God Bless the U.S.A., Lee Greenwood, 1984 22 --
Visions of America --
John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, 1630 32 --
George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796 34 --
Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801 41 --
Daniel Webster, Dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1825 45 --
Ship of State, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1849 48 --
Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life, April 10, 1899 49 --
Let America Be America Again, Langston Hughes, July 1936 54 --
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Second Inaugural Address, January 20, 1937 57 --
John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961 61 --
Times They Are A-Changin', Bob Dylan, c. 1963 65 --
First Words Spoken by a Man on the Moon, July 20, 1969 67 --
Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address, January 11, 1989 69 --
Portraits of Americans --
Yankee Doodle, 1755 76 --
Letters from an American Farmer; J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, 1782 78 --
Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 79 --
Democracy, Henry Adams, 1880 81 --
Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde, 1891 83 --
Dangers of the Dress Suit in Politics, George Washington Plunkitt, 1905 85 --
Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Albert Von Tilzer and Jack Norworth, 1908 88 --
On Being an American, H. L. Mencken, 1922 90 --
As Regards Patriotism, Mark Twain, c. 1900 94 --
I Like Americans, Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1924 96 --
Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 98 --
American Names, Stephen Vincent Benet, 1927 100 --
The 42nd Parallel, John Dos Passos, 1930 102 --
You're the Top, Cole Porter, 1934 105 --
Story of a Novel, Thomas Wolfe, 1936 108 --
Hollywood, Truman Capote, 1950 109 --
Last Gentleman, Walker Percy, 1966 111 --
How to Tame a Wild Tongue, Gloria Anzaldua, 1987 113 --
A Country and a Conundrum, Anna Quindlen, 2002 116 --
Rule of Law --
Constitution of the United States, 1787 125 --
Benjamin Franklin, The Constitutional Convention, Speech at the Conclusion of Its Deliberations, September 17, 1787 143 --
Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803) 145 --
Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau, 1849 147 --
Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 150 --
United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony, 1873 157 --
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960 162 --
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham City Jail, April 16, 1963 165 --
Lyndon B. Johnson, Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise, March 15, 1965 170 --
Duncan v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145 (1968) 175 --
Barbara Jordan, Opening Statement to the House Judiciary Committee, Proceedings on Impeachment of Richard Nixon, July 25, 1974 178 --
Gerald R. Ford, Remarks on Taking the Oath of Office, August 9, 1974 181 --
Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000) 183 --
Freedom --
Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, 1776 192 --
But, Mister Adams (from the Broadway musical 1776), Sherman Edwards, 1964 197 --
America, Samuel Francis Smith, 1832 200 --
Frederick Douglass, If I Had a Country, I Should Be a Patriot, September 24, 1847 202 --
Annie Davis, Letter to President Lincoln, August 25, 1864 204 --
Sympathy, Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1893 205 --
Freedom, E. B. White, July 1940 206 --
As freedom is a breakfastfood, E. E. Cummings, 1940 211 --
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, State of the Union Address, January 6, 1941 213 --
Judge Learned Hand, Address at "I Am an American" Day, Central Park, New York, May 21, 1944 220 --
I've Got the Light of Freedom, Pete Seeger 222 --
Ronald Reagan, Address to Students, Moscow State University, May 31, 1988 223 --
Freedom of Speech and of the Press --
Andrew Hamilton, Statement at Trial of John Peter Zenger; 1735 229 --
Abrams v. U.S., 250 U.S. 616 (1919) 232 --
Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) 236 --
Margaret Chase Smith, Remarks to the Senate in Support of a Declaration of Conscience, June 1, 1950 240 --
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964) 244 --
Freedom of Religion --
Amazing Grace, John Newton, 1779, 1829 (last stanza) 251 --
Chief Red Jacket, Speech Against Missionaries' Efforts to Baptize Members of the Seneca Tribe, 1805 254 --
John F. Kennedy, Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, September 12, 1960 256 --
Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962) 259 --
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, 122 S. Ct. 2460 (2002) 264 --
Right to be Let Alone --
James Otis, Statement Against the Writs of Assistance, Boston, 1761 269 --
Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) 271 --
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992) 275 --
Equality --
Abigail Adams, Letter to John Adams, March 31, 1776 287 --
John Adams, Letter to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776 288 --
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 289 --
Sojourner Truth, Ain't I a Woman?, May 1851 293 --
James Weldon Johnson, Lift Every Voice and Sing, 1900 294 --
Jeannette Rankin, Speech in Congress on Women's Rights and Wartime Service, January 10, 1918 296 --
Incident, Countee Cullen, 1925 299 --
Merry-Go-Round, Langston Hughes, 1942 301 --
Can a Woman Ever Be President of the United States?, Eleanor Roosevelt, 1935 302 --
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) 306 --
Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock, Fall 1957, Gwendolyn Brooks, 1960 312 --
John F. Kennedy, Televised Address to the Nation, June 11, 1963 315 --
Martin Luther King Jr., Address at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963 321 --
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, 1963 325 --
Fannie Lou Hamer, The Special Plight and the Role of the Black Woman, May 7, 1971 328 --
Frontiero v. Richardson, 411 U.S. 677 (1973) 330 --
Edward M. Kennedy, Statement on Americans with Disabilities Act, May 9, 1989 332 --
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Address to the Fourth UN World Conference on Women, Beijing, China, September 5, 1993 336 --
William Jefferson Clinton, Remarks on Affirmative Action, July 19, 1995 340 --
Baker v. State, 170 Vt. 194 (1999) 347 --
Individual --
Simple Gifts, Joseph Brackett, 1848 355 --
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance, 1841 356 --
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854 360 --
Songs of the Sacred Mysteries, Sioux, 1869 364 --
Sorrow Songs (from The Souls of Black Folk), W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903 367 --
Road Not Taken, Robert Frost, 1916 370 --
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1947 371 --
William Faulkner, Address Upon Receiving the Nobel Prize, December 10, 1950 374 --
Lillian Hellman, Letter to the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and Reply (from Scoundrel Time), 1952 375 --
Robert F. Kennedy, Day of Affirmation, Cape Town University, June 6, 1966 379 --
Martin Luther King Jr., The Drum Major Instinct, February 4, 1968 383 --
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, Alice Walker, 1974 387 --
War and Peace --
Chief Logan, Speech After Defeat by the Virginia Militia, 1774 397 --
Patrick Henry, Speech to the Second Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775 398 --
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, February 14, 1776 400 --
Paul Revere's Ride, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1863 403 --
Monroe Doctrine, 1823 408 --
Battle Hymn of the Republic, Julia Ward Howe, 1861 410 --
Shiloh, a Requiem, Herman Melville, April 1862 411 --
Abraham Lincoln, Final Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863 412 --
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 415 --
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 418 --
Memoirs, Ulysses S. Grant, 1885-1886 420 --
Chief Joseph, Surrender to the U.S. Army, 1877 421 --
Marines' Song, 1891 422 --
Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind, Stephen Crane, 1899 423 --
Caisson Song, Edmund L. Gruber, 1907 425 --
Woodrow Wilson, War Message to Congress, April 2, 1917 426 --
Over There, George M. Cohan, 1917 430 --
Unknown Soldier; Billy Rose 431 --
September 1, 1939, W. H. Auden, 1941 433 --
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, War Message to Congress, December 8, 1941 436 --
Gift Outright, Robert Frost, 1942 438 --
Martial Cadenza, Wallace Stevens, 1954 440 --
Dwight D. Eisenhower, The Great Crusade, June 6, 1944 442 --
J. Robert Oppenheimer, On the Atomic Bomb, 1945 446 --
Albert Einstein, The Fateful Decision, 1948 447 --
Harry S. Truman, Address to the Nation on Korea, April 11, 1951 449 --
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address, January 17, 1961 454 --
Blowin' in the Wind, Bob Dylan, 1962 458 --
John F. Kennedy, Commencement Address at American University, June 10, 1963 459 --
Vietnam Veterans Against the War, John Kerry, 1971 465 --
Born in the U.S.A., Bruce Springsteen, 1984 469 --
Tim O'Brien, On the Rainy River (from The Things They Carried), 1990 472 --
Richard M. Nixon, Remarks Upon Returning from the People's Republic of China, February 28, 1972 478 --
William Jefferson Clinton, Remarks at Michigan State University, May 5, 1995 481 --
George W. Bush, Address on Terrorism Before a Joint Meeting of Congress, September 20, 2001 485 --
Jimmy Carter, Address Upon Receiving the Nobel Prize, December 10, 2002 491 --
Work, Opportunity, and Invention --
New Colossus, Emma Lazarus, 1883 499 --
Huang Zunxian, Explusion of the Immigrants, c. 1884 500 --
I Hear America Singing, Walt Whitman, 1891 503 --
I've Been Working on the Railroad 505 --
Wilbur Wright, Letter to Octave Chanute, May 13, 1900 506 --
Florence Kelley, Speech at the Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, July 22, 1905 509 --
Jungle, Upton Sinclair, 1906 510 --
Ellis Island, Henry James, 1907 512 --
Ernesto Galarza, Barrio Boy, 1971 514 --
Henry Ford, My Life and Work, 1922 517 --
Thomas Alva Edison, They Won't Think, 1921 519 --
Happy Days Are Here Again, Milton Ager and Jack Yellen, 1929 520 --
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, E. Y. Harburg and Jay Gorney, 1932 521 --
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933 523 --
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937) 528 --
Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, 1939 530 --
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, 1949 534 --
Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev, The Kitchen Debate, Moscow, 1959 536 --
Manny Steen, Ellis Island Interview, March 22, 1991 539 --
Groucho Marx, King Leer, 1950 540 --
Coal Miner's Daughter, Loretta Lynn, 1970 542 --
Mario Puzo, Choosing a Dream: Italians in Hell's Kitchen, 1971 544 --
Robert F. Kennedy, Recapturing America's Moral Vision, University of Kansas, March 18, 1968 548 --
Cesar Chavez, Address to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, November 9, 1984 551 --
My Hometown, Bruce Springsteen, 1984 555 --
Andy Warhol, POPism, 1975 557 --
Edward M. Kennedy, Speech to the Democratic Convention, August 12, 1980 558 --
David Bright, Homeless Children Speak, 1986 561 --
George Bush, Speech at the Republican Convention, August 18, 1988 562 --
Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan, 1989 564 --
Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Education of an American, September 21, 2001 566 --
Bill Gates, Capitalizing on the "Cognitive Niche," 1999 570 --
Our Land --
God Bless America, Irving Berlin, 1938 577 --
Thanksgivings, Iroquois, 1891 578 --
Twelfth Song of the Thunder; Navajo, 1887 579 --
Oh! Susanna, Stephen Foster, 1848 580 --
Old Cotton Fields at Home, Huddie Ledbetter, 1936 582 --
Light in August, William Faulkner, 1932 584 --
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee, 1941 586 --
Florida, Elizabeth Bishop, 1946 588 --
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, 1884 590 --
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost, 1923 593 --
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville, 1851 594 --
Sidewalks of New York, James W. Blake and Charles B. Lawlor, 1894 596 --
New York, New York, Fred Ebb and John Kander, 1977 598 --
Jazz, Toni Morrison, 1992 599 --
Chicago, Carl Sandburg, 1916 601 --
Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1893 603 --
Ballad of Davy Crockett, George Bruns and Tom Blackburn, 1954 606 --
O Pioneers!, Willa Cather, 1913 608 --
Northern Utes, Response to the Breakup of Their Reservation, 1903 612 --
Home on the Range, David Guion, 1930 614 --
Old Chisholm Trail, c. 1880 618 --
Mud Below, Annie Proulx, 1999 621 --
Oklahoma, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, 1943 623 --
I Left My Heart in San Francisco, George C. Cory Jr. and Douglass Cross, 1954 626 --
Sunset, Jack Kerouac, 1960 628 --
Surfin' U.S.A., Chuck Berry and Brian Wilson, 1963 630 --
Los Angeles Notebook, Joan Didion, 1966 632 --
Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell, 1970 636 --
Wilderness Letter, Wallace Stegner, 1960 638 --
America, Paul Simon, 1968 640 --
America, the Beautiful, Katharine Lee Bates, 1893 644 --
This Land Is Your Land, Woody Guthrie, 1940 646.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Kennedy, C. (2002). A patriot's handbook: songs, poems, and speeches every American should know . Hyperion.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kennedy, Caroline, 1957-. 2002. A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, and Speeches Every American Should Know. Hyperion.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kennedy, Caroline, 1957-. A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, and Speeches Every American Should Know Hyperion, 2002.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Kennedy, Caroline. A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, and Speeches Every American Should Know Hyperion, 2002.
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