What So Proudly We Hail The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song

Name: What So Proudly We Hail The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song
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ISBN: 9781610170062

ISBN-10: 1610170067

ISBN-13: 9781610170062

Edition: 2011

Authors: Amy A. Kass, Leon R. Kass, Diana Schaub

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A book for educating citizens This wonderfully rich anthology uses the soul-shaping power of story, speech, and song to help Americans realize more deeply-and appreciate more fully-who they are as citizens of the United States. At once inspiring and thought-provoking, What So Proudly We Hailfeatures dozens of selections on American identity, character, and civic life by our country#x19;s greatest writers and leaders-from Mark Twain to John Updike, from George Washington to Theodore Roosevelt, from Willa Cather to Flannery O#x19;Connor, from Benjamin Franklin to Martin Luther King Jr., from Francis Scott Key to Irving Berlin. Developing robust American citizens involves educating the heart…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Publication date: 5/15/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 790
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 2.970
Language: English

Amy A. Kass is Senior Lecturer in the Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago. She is editor of The Perfect Gift: The Philanthropic Imagination in Poetry and Prose (IUP, 2002); American Lives: Cultural Differences, Individual Distinction; and Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying (with Leon Kass).

Leon R. Kass is Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College at the University of Chicago.



Introduction



National Identity: Why Should It Matter?


ï¿½The Man without a Countryï¿½



The Promised Land



ï¿½In a Strange Countryï¿½




The American Creed


Declaration of Independence


Gettysburg Address



Publius, Federalist No. 10


Mayflower Compact


To the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island




The American Character: Individuals Free and Equal


ï¿½To Build a Fireï¿½



ï¿½A Father-to-Beï¿½



ï¿½Harrison Bergeronï¿½



ï¿½Idiots Firstï¿½



ï¿½The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburgï¿½



ï¿½The May-Pole of Merry Mountï¿½



ï¿½Defender of the Faithï¿½




Toward A More Robust Citizenry: The Virtues of Civic Life


Self-Command and Self-Respect


ï¿½Project for Moral Perfection,ï¿½ The Autobiography



ï¿½Pandoraï¿½



ï¿½Twenty-Two Days on a Chain Gangï¿½



ï¿½The Last Flogging,ï¿½ from My Bondage and My Freedom



Law-Abidingness and Justice: Toward Public Order


ï¿½The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutionsï¿½ (Address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois)



Letter from Birmingham Jail



ï¿½A Jury of Her Peersï¿½



Courage and Self-Sacrifice: Toward Country and Its Ideals


ï¿½On Roy Benavidez,ï¿½ from Why Courage Matters



Letter to Sarah



ï¿½Chamberlain,ï¿½ from The Killer Angels



Speech to the Third Army



ï¿½The Veteranï¿½



ï¿½The Devil and Daniel Websterï¿½



Civility, Tolerance, Compassion: Toward Neighbors


ï¿½Contractï¿½



ï¿½The Blue Hotelï¿½



ï¿½The Travelerï¿½



ï¿½Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Streetï¿½



Public-Spiritedness, Charity, Reverence: Toward the Public Goods


ï¿½The Open Boatï¿½



Veterans Day Speech to the Semper Fi Society of St. Louis



Second Inaugural Address



ï¿½The Deaconï¿½



ï¿½The Artificial Niggerï¿½



ï¿½Dosie, of Killakeet Islandï¿½




The Goals of Civic Life


Lifting the Floor


ï¿½The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelasï¿½



Writings on Education



ï¿½Why Should a Colored Man Enlist?ï¿½



ï¿½Democracy and Educationï¿½



ï¿½The Talented Tenthï¿½



ï¿½He Who Spits at the Skyï¿½



ï¿½The Best Yearsï¿½



Elevating the Ceiling


ï¿½The Artist of the Beautifulï¿½



ï¿½The Little Man at Chehaw Station: The American Artist and His Audienceï¿½



ï¿½Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieuï¿½



ï¿½Lee in the Capitolï¿½



ï¿½Yeager,ï¿½ from The Right Stuff



Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort



Preservation and Perpetuation


ï¿½Old Folks' Christmasï¿½



ï¿½Everyday Useï¿½



Farewell Address



ï¿½Manhood and Statehood,ï¿½ from The Strenuous Life



Speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence



ï¿½In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched with Fireï¿½



Thanksgiving Proclamation



ï¿½Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemenï¿½




Making One Out of Many


Immigration and Assimilation


ï¿½True Americanismï¿½



ï¿½O KAPLAN! My KAPLAN!ï¿½ from The Education of HYMAN KAPLA*N



ï¿½Aria,ï¿½ from Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez



Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America



Songs for Free Men and Women


ï¿½The Star-Spangled Bannerï¿½



ï¿½.The Star-Spangled Bannerï¿½


ï¿½My Country, 'Tis of Theeï¿½


ï¿½America the Beautifulï¿½


ï¿½The Battle Hymn of the Republicï¿½


ï¿½God Bless Americaï¿½


ï¿½This Land Is Your Landï¿½


Symbols


The Great Seal of the United States


The American Eagle: Two Poems


ï¿½Song of the American Eagleï¿½


Herman Melville, ï¿½The Eagle of the Blueï¿½


The Flag: Willa Cather, ï¿½The Namesakeï¿½


Acknowledgments


Sources and Credits