Format:
Book
Title:
A patriot's handbook : songs, poems, stories, and speeches celebrating the land we love / selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy.
Call Number:
810.8 Patriots
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Hyperion, c2003.
Description:
xxiii, 663 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
Speeches, addresses, etc., American.
Patriotism -- Literary collections.
Patriotism -- United States.
Patriotic poetry, American.
American literature.
United States -- Literary collections.
United States
Other Author:
Kennedy, Caroline, 1957-
Contents:
The flag: The star-spangled banner/ Francis Scott Key and John Stafford Smith, 1814 -- The pledge of allegiance, 1892 -- The battle cry of freedom / George Frederick Root, c. 1861 -- The flag goes by / Henry Holcomb Bennett, c. 1900 -- You're a grand old flag / George M. Cohan, 1906 -- West Virginia state board of education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943) -- Flags / Gwendolyn Brooks, 1944 -- The Mike Christian story / John McCain, 1971 -- Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989) -- U.S. blues / Grateful Dead, 1973 -- God bless the USA / Lee Greenwood, 1984 -- Visions of America: A model of Christian charity / John Winthrop, 1630 -- Farewell address, September 19, 1796 / George Washington -- First inaugural address, March 4, 1801 / Thomas Jefferson -- Dedication of the Bunker Hill monument, June 17, 1825 / Daniel Webster -- The ship of state / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1849 -- The strenuous life, April 10, 1899 / Theodore Roosevelt -- Let America be America again / Langston Hughes, 1936 -- Second inaugural address, January 20, 1937 / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Inaugural address, January 20, 1961 / John F. Kennedy -- The times they are a-changin' / Bob Dylan, c. 1963 -- First words spoken by a man on the moon, July 20, 1969 -- Farewell address, January 11, 1989 / Ronald Reagan -- Portraits of Americans: Yankee Doodle, 1755 -- Letters from an American farmer / J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, 1782 -- Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 -- Democracy / Henry Adams, 1880 -- The picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde, 1891 -- Dangers of the dress suit in politics / George Washington Plunkitt, 1905 -- Take me out to the ball game / Albert Von Tilzer and Jack Norworth, 1908 -- On being an American / H.L. Mencken, 1922 -- As regards patriotism / Mark Twain, c. 1900 -- I like Americans / Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1924 -- The great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 -- American names / Stephen Vincent Benét, 1927 -- The 42nd parallel / John Dos Passos, 1930 -- You're the top / Cole Porter, 1934 -- The story of a novel / Thomas Wolfe, 1936 -- Hollywood / Truman Capote, 1950 -- The last gentleman / Walker Percy, 1966 -- How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa, 1987 -- A country and a conundrum / Anna Quindlen, 2002 -- Rule Of law: The Constitution of the United States, 1787 -- The Constitutional Convention, speech at the conclusion of its deliberations, September 17, 1787 / Benjamin Franklin -- Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803) -- Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau, 1849 -- First inaugural address, March 4, 1861 / Abraham Lincoln -- The United States of America v. Susan B Anthony, 1873 -- To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee, 1960 -- Letter from Birmingham city jail, April 16, 1963 / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Special message to the Congress: the American promise, March 15, 1965 / Lyndon B. Johnson -- Duncan v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145 (1968) -- Opening statement to the House judiciary committee, proceedings on impeachment of Richard Nixon, July 25, 1974 / Barbara Jordan -- Remarks on taking the oath of office, August 9, 1974 / Gerald R. Ford -- Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000).
Freedom: The Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson, 1776 -- But, Mister Adams (from the Broadway musical 1776) / Sherman Edwards, 1964 -- America / Samuel Francis Smith, 1832 -- If I had a country, I should be a patriot, September 24, 1847 / Frederick Douglass -- Letter to President Lincoln, August 25, 1864 / Annie Davis -- Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1893 -- Freedom / E.B. White, July 1940 -- As freedom is a breakfastfood / E.E. Cummings, 1940 -- State of the Union address, January 6, 1941 / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Address at "I am an American" day, Central Park, New York, May 21, 1944 / Judge Learned Hand -- I've got the light of freedom / Pete Seeger -- Address to students, Moscow State University, May 31, 1988 / Ronald Reagan -- Freedom of speech and of the press: Statement at trial of John Peter Zenger, 1735 / Andrew Hamilton -- Abrams v. U.S., 250 U.S. 616 (1919) -- Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) -- Remarks to the Senate in support of a declaration of conscience, June 1, 1950 / Margaret Chase Smith -- New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964) -- Freedom of religion: Amazing grace / John Newton, 1779, 1829 (last stanza) -- Speech against missionaries' efforts to baptize members of the Seneca tribe, 1805 / Chief Red Jacket -- Speech to the greater Houston ministerial association, September 12, 1960 / John F. Kennedy -- Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962) -- Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, 122 S. Ct. 2460 (2002) -- Right to be let alone: Statement against the writs of assistance, Boston, 1761 / James Otis -- Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) -- Planned parenthood of southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992) -- Equality: Letter to John Adams, March 31, 1776 / Abigail Adams -- Letter to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776 / John Adams -- Declaration of sentiments and resolutions / Seneca Falls convention, 1848 -- Ain't I a woman?, May 1851 / Sojourner Truth -- Lift every voice and sing, 1900 / James Weldon Johnson -- Speech in Congress on women's rights and wartime service, January 10, 1918 / Jeannette Rankin -- Incident / Countee Cullen, 1925 -- Merry-go-round / Langston Hughes, 1942 -- Can a woman ever be president of the United States? / Eleanor Roosevelt, 1935 -- Brown v. Board of education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) -- The Chicago defender sends a man to Little Rock, Fall 1957 / Gwendolyn Brooks, 1960 -- Televised address to the nation, June 11, 1963 / John F. Kennedy -- Address at the march on Washington, August 28, 1963 / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The feminine mystique, 1963 / Betty Friedan -- The special plight and the role of the black woman, May 7, 1971 / Fannie Lou Hamer -- Frontiero v. Richardson, 411 U.S. 677 (1973) -- Statement on Americans with disabilities act, May 9, 1989 / Edward M. Kennedy -- Address to the fourth UN world conference on women, Beijing, China, September 5, 1993 / Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Remarks on affirmative action, July 19, 1995 / William Jefferson Clinton -- Baker v. State, 170 Vt. 194 (1999) -- The individual: Simple gifts / Joseph Brackett, 1848 -- Self-reliance, 1841 / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Walden, 1854 / Henry David Thoreau -- Songs of the sacred mysteries / Sioux, 1869 -- The sorrow songs (from The the souls of black folk) / W.E.B. Du Bois, 1903 -- The road not taken / Robert Frost, 1916 -- Invisible man / Ralph Ellison, 1947 -- Address upon receiving the Nobel Prize, December 10, 1950 / William Faulkner -- Letter to the House committee on un-American activities, and reply (from Scoundrel Time), 1952 / Lillian Hellman -- Day of affirmation, Cape Town University, June 6, 1966 / Robert F. Kennedy -- The drum major instinct, February 4, 1968 / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- In search of our mother's gardens / Alice Walker, 1974.
War and peace: Speech after defeat by the Virginia militia, 1774 / Chief Logan -- Speech to the second Virginia convention, March 23, 1775 / Patrick Henry -- Common sense, February 14, 1776 / Thomas Paine -- Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1863 -- The Monroe doctrine, 1823 -- The battle hymn of the Republic / Julia Ward Howe, 1861 -- Shiloh, a requiem / Herman Melville, April 1862 -- Final emancipation proclamation, January 1, 1863 / Abraham Lincoln -- Gettysburg address, November 19, 1863 / Abraham Lincoln -- Second inaugural address, March 4, 1865 / Abraham Lincoln -- Memoirs / Ulysses S. Grant, 1885-1886 -- Surrender to the U.S. army, 1877 / Chief Joseph -- The Marines' song, 1891 -- Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind / Stephen Crane, 1899 -- The Caisson song / Edmund L. Gruber, 1907 -- War message to Congress, April 2, 1917 / Woodrow Wilson -- Over there / George M. Cohan, 1917 -- The unknown soldier / Billy Rose -- September 1, 1939 / W.H. Auden, 1941 -- War message to Congress, December 8, 1941 / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- The gift outright / Robert Frost, 1942 -- Martial Cadenza / Wallace Stevens, 1954 -- The great crusade, June 6, 1944 / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- On the atomic bomb, 1945 / H. Robert Oppenheimer -- The fateful decision, 1948 / Albert Einstein -- Address to the nation on Korea, April 11, 1951 / Harry S. Truman -- Farewell address, January 17, 1961 / Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Blowin' in the wind / Bob Dylan, 1962 -- Commencement address at American University, June 10, 1963 / John F. Kennedy -- Vietnam veterans against the war / John Kerry, 1971 -- Born in the U.S.A. / Bruce Springsteen, 1984 -- On the rainy river (from The things they carried), 1990 / Tim O'Brien -- Remarks upon returning from the People's Republic of China, February 28, 1972 / Richard M. Nixon -- Remarks at Michigan State University, May 5, 1995 / William Jefferson Clinton -- Address on terrorism before a Joint meeting of Congress, September 20, 2001 / George W. Bush -- Address upon receiving the Nobel Prize, December 10, 2002 / Jimmy Carter -- Work, opportunity, and invention: The new colossus / Emma Lazarus, 1883 -- Explusion of the immigrants, c. 1884 / Huang Zunxian -- I hear America singing / Walt Whitman, 1891 -- I've been working on the railroad -- Letter to Octave Chanute, May 13, 1900 / Wilbur Wright -- Speech at the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, July 22, 1905 / Florence Kelley -- The jungle / Upton Sinclair, 1906 -- Ellis Island / Henry James, 1907 -- Barrio boy, 1971 / Ernesto Galarza -- My life and work, 1922 / Henry Ford -- They won't think, 1921 / Thomas Alva Edison -- Happy days are here again / Milton Ager and Jack Yellen, 1929 -- Brother, can you spare a dime? / E.Y. Harburg and Jay Gorney, 1932 -- First inaugural address, March 4, 1933 / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937) -- Grapes of wrath / John Steinbeck, 1939 -- Death of a salesman, 1949 / Arthur Miller -- The kitchen debate, Moscow, 1959 / Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev -- Ellis Island interview, March 22, 1991 / Manny Steen -- King Leer, 1950 / Groucho Marx -- Coal miner's daughter / Loretta Lynn, 1970 -- Choosing a dream: Italians in Hell's Kitchen, 1971 / Mario Puzo -- Recapturing America's moral vision, University of Kansas, March 18, 1968 / Robert F. Kennedy -- Address to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, November 9, 1984 / Cesar Chavez -- My hometown / Bruce Springsteen, 1984 -- POPism, 1975 / Andy Warhol -- Speech to the Democratic convention, August 12, 1980 / Edward M. Kennedy -- Homeless children speak, 1986 / David Bright -- Speech at the Republican convention, August 18, 1988 / George Bush -- The joy luck club / Amy Tan, 1989 -- The education of an American, September 21, 2001 / Arnold Schwarzenegger -- Capitalizing on the "cognitive niche", 1999 / Bill Gates -- God bless America / Irving Berlin, 1938 -- The Thanksgivings / Iroquois, 1891 -- Twelfth song of the thunder / Navajo, 1887 -- Oh! Susanna / Stephen Foster, 1848 -- Old cotton fields at home / Huddie Ledbetter, 1936 -- Light in August / William Faulkner, 1932 -- Let us now praise famous men / James Agee, 1941 -- Florida / Elizabeth Bishop, 1946 -- The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain, 1884 -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost, 1923 -- Moby-Dick / Herman Melville, 1851 -- The sidewalks of New York / James W. Blake and Charles B. Lawlor, 1894 -- New York, New York / Fred Ebb and John Kander, 1977 -- Jazz / Toni Morrison, 1992 -- Chicago / Carl Sandburg, 1916 -- The significance of the frontier in American history, 1893 / Frederick Jackson Turner -- The ballad of Davy Crockett / George Bruns and Tom Blackburn, 1954 -- O pioneers! / Willa Cather, 1913 -- Response to the breakup of their reservation, 1903 / Northern Utes -- Home on the range / David Guion, 1930 -- The old Chisholm trail, c. 1880 -- The mud below / Annie Proulx, 1999 -- Oklahoma / Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, 1943 -- I left my heart in San Fransciso / George C. Cory, Jr. and Douglass Cross, 1954 -- Sunset / Jack Kerouac, 1960 -- Surfin' U.S.A. / Chuck Berry and Brian Wilson, 1963 -- Los Angeles notebook / Joan Didion, 1966 -- Big yellow taxi / Joni Mitchell, 1970 -- The wilderness letter / Wallace Stegner, 1960 -- America / Paul Simon, 1968 -- America, the beautiful / Katharine Lee Bates, 1893 -- This land is your land / Woody Guthrie, 1940.
ISBN:
0786869186