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Format:
Audio disc
Title:
A patriot's handbook : poems, stories, and speeches celebrating the land we love
ISBN:
9781401396657
Publication Information:
[New York] : Hyperion Audiobooks, ©2003.
Physical Description:
3 audio discs (approximately 3.5 hr.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Title from container.

Compact discs.

"Featuring archival recordings of Neil Armstrong, Robert Frost, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ronald Reagan, John McCain, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Selections also read by various readers including James Earl Jones, Edward M. Kennedy, Martha Plimpton, and Vanessa Williams.
Contents:
CD 1. Title/Montage -- Introduction -- Flags / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Mike Christian Story / John McCain -- Ship of state / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- First words spoken by a man on the moon, July 20, 1969 -- Farewell address, January 11, 1989 / Ronald Reagan -- I like Americans / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde -- Constitutional Convention, speech at the conclusion of its deliberations, September 17, 1787 / Benjamin Franklin -- United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony -- To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee -- America / Samuel Francis Smith -- If I had a country, I should be a patriot, September 24, 1847 / Frederick Douglass -- Sympathy / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Address at "I am an American" Day, Central Park, New York, May 21, 1944 / Judge Learned Hand -- Remarks to the Senate in support of a Declaration of Conscience, June 1, 1950 / Margaret Chase Smith.

cd 2. Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, September 12, 1960 / John F. Kennedy -- Speech against missionaries' efforts to baptize members of the Seneca tribe, 1805 / Chief Red Jacket -- Statement against the Writs of Assistance, Boston, 1761 / James Otis -- Letter to John Adams, March 31, 1776 / Abigail Adams -- Letter to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776 / John Adams -- Ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth -- Merry-go-round / Langston Hughes -- Feminine mystique / Betty Friedan -- Address at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963 / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Statement on Americans with Disabilities Act, May 9, 1989 / Edward M. Kennedy -- Road not taken / Robert Frost -- Souls of Black folk. Sorrow songs / W.E.B. DuBois -- Day of affirmation, Cape Town University, June 6, 1966 / Robert F. Kennedy.

cd 3. Self-reliance / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Surrender to the U.S. Army, 1877 / Chief Joseph -- Final Emancipation Proclamation, Januarry 1, 1863 / Abraham Lincoln -- Shiloh, a requiem / Herman Melville -- Gettysburg address, November 19, 1863 / Abraham Lincoln -- September 1, 1939 / W.H. Auden -- War message to Congress, December 8, 1941 / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- On the atomic bomb / J. Robert Oppenheimer -- Fateful decision / Albert Einstein -- I hear America singing / Walt Whitman -- New colossus / Emma Lazarus -- Ellis Island interview, March 22, 1991 / Manny Steen -- Telegram to their father, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, 1903 / Orville and Wilbur Wright -- Homeless children speak / David Bright -- POPism / Andy Warhol -- Gift outright / Robert Frost -- Moby-Dick / Herman Melville -- Let us now praise famous men / James Agee -- Significance of the frontier in American history / Frederick Jackson Turner -- Jazz / Toni Morrison -- Wilderness idea / Wallace Stegner -- End credits.
Summary:
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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