America: Classics That Help Define the Nation - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375753818 ISBN 13: 9780375753817

Publisher: Modern Library, 1999

Synopsis

An anthology that celebrates America in poetry, song, prose, and story features selections by Whitman, Emerson, Longfellow, W.E.B. DuBois, Thomas Paine, and Abraham Lincoln

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<b>A MODERN LIBRARY GIANT</b><br><br>The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues t

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ibrary presents America, the fifth in its series of anthologies, following Christmas Classics, Mothers, The Raven and the Monkey's Paw, and Love. This original collection features classic songs, poems, stories, speeches, and extracts from works that have helped define America--the nation and the people--and establish its national character. <br>        <br><b>America</b> begins with the Compact the Mayflower pilgrims made before landing at Plymouth Rock, then sets out across the succeeding centuries to present a few of the great moments in American history as captured in words. From the thrill of "Paul Revere's Ride" to the wonders described in the journals of Lewis and Clark, from the political fire of Thoreau's Civil Disobedience and the drama of Frederick Douglass's narrative of slavery to the lyricism and power of the "Battle-Hymn of the Republic," this is a collection that reaches deep into the history of America and the fabr

Edition details

• Publisher: Modern Library
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375753818
• ISBN 13: 9780375753817
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 221