The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 2000 M09 5 - 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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... publish and declare , That these United Colonies are , and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States ; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown , and that all political connection between them and the State ...
... published January 10 , 1776. It was an immediate sensation . More than 100,000 copies were sold within three months , and possibly as many as 500,000 copies altogether , to a colonial population of but two and a half million people ...
... published between 1776 and 1783. He signed the pamphlets " Common Sense . " The first of these , with its rousing call to fight for freedom , was issued on December 23 , 1776 ; it is excerpted below . This spirited essay was read to ...
... published The Rights of Man , a defense of the French Revolution and a critique of Edmund Burke's Reflections of the Revolution in France ; Burke replled , and in 1792 , Paine issued The Rights of Man , Part II , a critique of monarchy ...
... published a dozen essays , which he called Letters from an American Farmer . This book won fame for its author in the European countries where it was published and won friends for the fledgling country . J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur ...
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