A Patriot's Handbook Songs, Poems, Stories, and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love
by Kennedy, CarolineEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2003-05-07
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Summary
When John F. Kennedy called America "the land we love" more than forty years ago, he was reminding us of the lofty ideals on which our country was founded. But what are those ideals, and how have Americans defined them? Is America the land of George Washington and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who rallied the country's spirits for unity in wartime, or is it a land of dissent, a land in which Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Martin Luther King Jr. remind us of our duty to protect our most fundamental freedoms? Are we defined by the speeches of Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan, or by the humor of H. L. Mencken and Mark Twain?
Author Biography
Garoline Kennedy is the editor of the New York Times bestselling The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Profiles in Courage for Our Time, and the co-author of The Right to Privacy and In Our Defense. She heads the Office of Strategic Partnerships for the New York City Department of Education, and serves as the president of the John F. Kennedy Foundation
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | p. xv |
| Acknowledgments | p. xix |
| Introduction | p. xxi |
| The Flag | |
| The Star-Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key and John Stafford Smith, 1814 | p. 5 |
| The Pledge of Allegiance, 1892 | p. 7 |
| The Battle Cry of Freedom, George Frederick Root, c. 1861 | p. 8 |
| The Flag Goes By, Henry Holcomb Bennett, c. 1900 | p. 9 |
| You're a Grand Old Flag, George M. Cohan, 1906 | p. 10 |
| West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnett, 319 U.S. 624 (1943) | p. 11 |
| Flags, Gwendolyn Brooks, 1944 | p. 15 |
| The Mike Christian Story, John McCain, 1971 | p. 16 |
| Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989) | p. 18 |
| U.S. Blues, Grateful Dead, 1973 | p. 21 |
| God Bless the U.S.A., Lee Greenwood, 1984 | p. 22 |
| Visions of America | |
| John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity, 1630 | p. 32 |
| George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796 | p. 34 |
| Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801 | p. 41 |
| Daniel Webster, Dedication of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1825 | p. 45 |
| The Ship of State, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1849 | p. 48 |
| Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life, April 10, 1899 | p. 49 |
| Let America Be America Again, Langston Hughes, July 1936 | p. 54 |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Second Inaugural Address, January 20, 1937 | p. 57 |
| John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961 | p. 61 |
| The Times They Are A-Changin', Bob Dylan, c. 1963 | p. 65 |
| First Words Spoken by a Man on the Moon, July 20, 1969 | p. 67 |
| Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address, January 11, 1989 | p. 69 |
| Portraits of Americans | |
| Yankee Doodle, 1755 | p. 76 |
| Letters from an American Farmer; J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, 1782 | p. 78 |
| Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 | p. 79 |
| Democracy, Henry Adams, 1880 | p. 81 |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde, 1891 | p. 83 |
| Dangers of the Dress Suit in Politics, George Washington Plunkitt, 1905 | p. 85 |
| Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Albert Von Tilzer and Jack Norworth, 1908 | p. 88 |
| On Being an American, H. L. Mencken, 1922 | p. 90 |
| As Regards Patriotism, Mark Twain, c. 1900 | p. 94 |
| I Like Americans, Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1924 | p. 96 |
| The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 | p. 98 |
| American Names, Stephen Vincent Benet, 1927 | p. 100 |
| The 42nd Parallel, John Dos Passos, 1930 | p. 102 |
| You're the Top, Cole Porter, 1934 | p. 105 |
| The Story of a Novel, Thomas Wolfe, 1936 | p. 108 |
| Hollywood, Truman Capote, 1950 | p. 109 |
| The Last Gentleman, Walker Percy, 1966 | p. 111 |
| How to Tame a Wild Tongue, Gloria Anzaldua, 1987 | p. 113 |
| A Country and a Conundrum, Anna Quindlen, 2002 | p. 116 |
| Rule of Law | |
| The Constitution of the United States, 1787 | p. 125 |
| Benjamin Franklin, The Constitutional Convention, Speech at the Conclusion of Its Deliberations, September 17, 1787 | p. 143 |
| Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803) | p. 145 |
| Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau, 1849 | p. 147 |
| Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 | p. 150 |
| The United States of America v. Susan B. Anthony, 1873 | p. 157 |
| To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960 | p. 162 |
| Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham City Jail, April 16, 1963 | p. 165 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson, Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise, March 15, 1965 | p. 170 |
| Duncan v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145 (1968) | p. 175 |
| Barbara Jordan, Opening Statement to the House Judiciary Committee, Proceedings on Impeachment of Richard Nixon, July 25, 1974 | p. 178 |
| Gerald R. Ford, Remarks on Taking the Oath of Office, August 9, 1974 | p. 181 |
| Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000) | p. 183 |
| Freedom | |
| The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, 1776 | p. 192 |
| But, Mister Adams (from the Broadway musical 1776), Sherman Edwards, 1964 | p. 197 |
| America, Samuel Francis Smith, 1832 | p. 200 |
| Frederick Douglass, If I Had a Country, I Should Be a Patriot, September 24, 1847 | p. 202 |
| Annie Davis, Letter to President Lincoln, August 25, 1864 | p. 204 |
| Sympathy, Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1893 | p. 205 |
| Freedom, E. B. White, July 1940 | p. 206 |
| As freedom is a breakfastfood, E. E. Cummings, 1940 | p. 211 |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt, State of the Union Address, January 6, 1941 | p. 213 |
| Judge Learned Hand, Address at "I Am an American" Day, Central Park, New York, May 21, 1944 | p. 220 |
| I've Got the Light of Freedom, Pete Seeger | p. 222 |
| Ronald Reagan, Address to Students, Moscow State University, May 31, 1988 | p. 223 |
| Freedom of Speech and of the Press | |
| Andrew Hamilton, Statement at Trial of John Peter Zenger; 1735 | p. 229 |
| Abrams v. U.S., 250 U.S. 616 (1919) | p. 232 |
| Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) | p. 236 |
| Margaret Chase Smith, Remarks to the Senate in Support of a Declaration of Conscience, June 1, 1950 | p. 240 |
| New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964) | p. 244 |
| Freedom of Religion | |
| Amazing Grace, John Newton, 1779, 1829 (last stanza) | p. 251 |
| Chief Red Jacket, Speech Against Missionaries' Efforts to Baptize Members of the Seneca Tribe, 1805 | p. 254 |
| John F. Kennedy, Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, September 12, 1960 | p. 256 |
| Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962) | p. 259 |
| Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, 122 S. Ct. 2460 (2002) | p. 264 |
| The Right to be Let Alone | |
| James Otis, Statement Against the Writs of Assistance, Boston, 1761 | p. 269 |
| Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) | p. 271 |
| Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992) | p. 275 |
| Equality | |
| Abigail Adams, Letter to John Adams, March 31, 1776 | p. 287 |
| John Adams, Letter to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776 | p. 288 |
| Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 | p. 289 |
| Sojourner Truth, Ain't I a Woman?, May 1851 | p. 293 |
| James Weldon Johnson, Lift Every Voice and Sing, 1900 | p. 294 |
| Jeannette Rankin, Speech in Congress on Women's Rights and Wartime Service, January 10, 1918 | p. 296 |
| Incident, Countee Cullen, 1925 | p. 299 |
| Merry-Go-Round, Langston Hughes, 1942 | p. 301 |
| Can a Woman Ever Be President of the United States?, Eleanor Roosevelt, 1935 | p. 302 |
| Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) | p. 306 |
| The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock, Fall 1957, Gwendolyn Brooks, 1960 | p. 312 |
| John F. Kennedy, Televised Address to the Nation, June 11, 1963 | p. 315 |
| Martin Luther King Jr., Address at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963 | p. 321 |
| Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, 1963 | p. 325 |
| Fannie Lou Hamer, The Special Plight and the Role of the Black Woman, May 7, 1971 | p. 328 |
| Frontiero v. Richardson, 411 U.S. 677 (1973) | p. 330 |
| Edward M. Kennedy, Statement on Americans with Disabilities Act, May 9, 1989 | p. 332 |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton, Address to the Fourth UN World Conference on Women, Beijing, China, September 5, 1993 | p. 336 |
| William Jefferson Clinton, Remarks on Affirmative Action, July 19, 1995 | p. 340 |
| Baker v. State, 170 Vt. 194 (1999) | p. 347 |
| The Individual | |
| Simple Gifts, Joseph Brackett, 1848 | p. 355 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance, 1841 | p. 356 |
| Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854 | p. 360 |
| Songs of the Sacred Mysteries, Sioux, 1869 | p. 364 |
| The Sorrow Songs (from The Souls of Black Folk), W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903 | p. 367 |
| The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost, 1916 | p. 370 |
| Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1947 | p. 371 |
| William Faulkner, Address Upon Receiving the Nobel Prize, December 10, 1950 | p. 374 |
| Lillian Hellman, Letter to the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and Reply (from Scoundrel Time), 1952 | p. 375 |
| Robert F. Kennedy, Day of Affirmation, Cape Town University, June 6, 1966 | p. 379 |
| Martin Luther King Jr., The Drum Major Instinct, February 4, 1968 | p. 383 |
| In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens, Alice Walker, 1974 | p. 387 |
| War and Peace | |
| Chief Logan, Speech After Defeat by the Virginia Militia, 1774 | p. 397 |
| Patrick Henry, Speech to the Second Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775 | p. 398 |
| Thomas Paine, Common Sense, February 14, 1776 | p. 400 |
| Paul Revere's Ride, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1863 | p. 403 |
| The Monroe Doctrine, 1823 | p. 408 |
| The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Julia Ward Howe, 1861 | p. 410 |
| Shiloh, a Requiem, Herman Melville, April 1862 | p. 411 |
| Abraham Lincoln, Final Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863 | p. 412 |
| Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 | p. 415 |
| Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 | p. 418 |
| Memoirs, Ulysses S. Grant, 1885-1886 | p. 420 |
| Chief Joseph, Surrender to the U.S. Army, 1877 | p. 421 |
| The Marines' Song, 1891 | p. 422 |
| Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind, Stephen Crane, 1899 | p. 423 |
| The Caisson Song, Edmund L. Gruber, 1907 | p. 425 |
| Woodrow Wilson, War Message to Congress, April 2, 1917 | p. 426 |
| Over There, George M. Cohan, 1917 | p. 430 |
| The Unknown Soldier; Billy Rose | p. 431 |
| September 1, 1939, W. H. Auden, 1941 | p. 433 |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt, War Message to Congress, December 8, 1941 | p. 436 |
| The Gift Outright, Robert Frost, 1942 | p. 438 |
| Martial Cadenza, Wallace Stevens, 1954 | p. 440 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower, The Great Crusade, June 6, 1944 | p. 442 |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer, On the Atomic Bomb, 1945 | p. 446 |
| Albert Einstein, The Fateful Decision, 1948 | p. 447 |
| Harry S. Truman, Address to the Nation on Korea, April 11, 1951 | p. 449 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower, Farewell Address, January 17, 1961 | p. 454 |
| Blowin' in the Wind, Bob Dylan, 1962 | p. 458 |
| John F. Kennedy, Commencement Address at American University, June 10, 1963 | p. 459 |
| Vietnam Veterans Against the War, John Kerry, 1971 | p. 465 |
| Born in the U.S.A., Bruce Springsteen, 1984 | p. 469 |
| Tim O'Brien, On the Rainy River (from The Things They Carried), 1990 | p. 472 |
| Richard M. Nixon, Remarks Upon Returning from the People's Republic of China, February 28, 1972 | p. 478 |
| William Jefferson Clinton, Remarks at Michigan State University, May 5, 1995 | p. 481 |
| George W. Bush, Address on Terrorism Before a Joint Meeting of Congress, September 20, 2001 | p. 485 |
| Jimmy Carter, Address Upon Receiving the Nobel Prize, December 10, 2002 | p. 491 |
| Work, Opportunity, and Invention | |
| The New Colossus, Emma Lazarus, 1883 | p. 499 |
| Huang Zunxian, Explusion of the Immigrants, c. 1884 | p. 500 |
| I Hear America Singing, Walt Whitman, 1891 | p. 503 |
| I've Been Working on the Railroad | p. 505 |
| Wilbur Wright, Letter to Octave Chanute, May 13, 1900 | p. 506 |
| Florence Kelley, Speech at the Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, July 22, 1905 | p. 509 |
| The Jungle, Upton Sinclair, 1906 | p. 510 |
| Ellis Island, Henry James, 1907 | p. 512 |
| Ernesto Galarza, Barrio Boy, 1971 | p. 514 |
| Henry Ford, My Life and Work, 1922 | p. 517 |
| Thomas Alva Edison, They Won't Think, 1921 | p. 519 |
| Happy Days Are Here Again, Milton Ager and Jack Yellen, 1929 | p. 520 |
| Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, E. Y. Harburg and Jay Gorney, 1932 | p. 521 |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933 | p. 523 |
| West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379 (1937) | p. 528 |
| The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, 1939 | p. 530 |
| Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, 1949 | p. 534 |
| Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev, The Kitchen Debate, Moscow, 1959 | p. 536 |
| Manny Steen, Ellis Island Interview, March 22, 1991 | p. 539 |
| Groucho Marx, King Leer, 1950 | p. 540 |
| Coal Miner's Daughter, Loretta Lynn, 1970 | p. 542 |
| Mario Puzo, Choosing a Dream: Italians in Hell's Kitchen, 1971 | p. 544 |
| Robert F. Kennedy, Recapturing America's Moral Vision, University of Kansas, March 18, 1968 | p. 548 |
| Cesar Chavez, Address to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, November 9, 1984 | p. 551 |
| My Hometown, Bruce Springsteen, 1984 | p. 555 |
| Andy Warhol, POPism, 1975 | p. 557 |
| Edward M. Kennedy, Speech to the Democratic Convention, August 12, 1980 | p. 558 |
| David Bright, Homeless Children Speak, 1986 | p. 561 |
| George Bush, Speech at the Republican Convention, August 18, 1988 | p. 562 |
| The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan, 1989 | p. 564 |
| Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Education of an American, September 21, 2001 | p. 566 |
| Bill Gates, Capitalizing on the "Cognitive Niche," 1999 | p. 570 |
| Our Land | |
| God Bless America, Irving Berlin, 1938 | p. 577 |
| The Thanksgivings, Iroquois, 1891 | p. 578 |
| Twelfth Song of the Thunder; Navajo, 1887 | p. 579 |
| Oh! Susanna, Stephen Foster, 1848 | p. 580 |
| Old Cotton Fields at Home, Huddie Ledbetter, 1936 | p. 582 |
| Light in August, William Faulkner, 1932 | p. 584 |
| Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee, 1941 | p. 586 |
| Florida, Elizabeth Bishop, 1946 | p. 588 |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, 1884 | p. 590 |
| Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost, 1923 | p. 593 |
| Moby-Dick, Herman Melville, 1851 | p. 594 |
| The Sidewalks of New York, James W. Blake and Charles B. Lawlor, 1894 | p. 596 |
| New York, New York, Fred Ebb and John Kander, 1977 | p. 598 |
| Jazz, Toni Morrison, 1992 | p. 599 |
| Chicago, Carl Sandburg, 1916 | p. 601 |
| Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1893 | p. 603 |
| The Ballad of Davy Crockett, George Bruns and Tom Blackburn, 1954 | p. 606 |
| O Pioneers!, Willa Cather, 1913 | p. 608 |
| Northern Utes, Response to the Breakup of Their Reservation, 1903 | p. 612 |
| Home on the Range, David Guion, 1930 | p. 614 |
| The Old Chisholm Trail, c. 1880 | p. 618 |
| The Mud Below, Annie Proulx, 1999 | p. 621 |
| Oklahoma, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, 1943 | p. 623 |
| I Left My Heart in San Francisco, George C. Cory Jr. and Douglass Cross, 1954 | p. 626 |
| Sunset, Jack Kerouac, 1960 | p. 628 |
| Surfin' U.S.A., Chuck Berry and Brian Wilson, 1963 | p. 630 |
| Los Angeles Notebook, Joan Didion, 1966 | p. 632 |
| Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell, 1970 | p. 636 |
| The Wilderness Letter, Wallace Stegner, 1960 | p. 638 |
| America, Paul Simon, 1968 | p. 640 |
| America, the Beautiful, Katharine Lee Bates, 1893 | p. 644 |
| This Land Is Your Land, Woody Guthrie, 1940 | p. 646 |
| Permissions and Photo Credits | p. 649 |
| Index | p. 655 |
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