Book Paperback The American Reader: Words That Moved the Nation by Diane Ravitch

Pages: 383 Publish date: January 1, 1990 ISBN: 1111788499 Type: Softbound, Paperback *May have some wear from reading. Pages are intact and may come with some notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged but may have spine creases from reading. Description: “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 consciousness. 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.”