A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories, and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love - Softcover

Kennedy, Caroline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1401307671 ISBN 13: 9781401307677

Publisher: Hyperion, 2005

Synopsis

Now available in paperback, the New York Times bestseller.

When John F. Kennedy called America "the land we love" more than 42 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?

Caroline Kennedy's answer in A Patriot's Handbook is that we are all of those things and more.

The poems, songs, speeches, letters, and historical documents that Caroline Kennedy has chosen for this remarkable collection remind us of the foundations on which America was built. But they also ask us to examine what it truly means to be a "patriot," even if our assumptions are challenged along the way, because it is only by doing so that America can "truly be our own."

Voices as diverse as the nation itself:

--Thomas Jefferson
--Cole Porter
--Chief Red Jacket
--Amy Tan
--Betty Friedan
--Albert Einstein
--George W. Bush
--Loretta Lynn
--John F. Kennedy
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
--Bob Dylan
--Cesar Chavez
--Toni Morrison
--Groucho Marx
--and many more

About this title

About the Author:

Caroline Kennedy is the editor of the New York Times bestsellingA Patriot's Handbook, Profiles in Courage for Our Time, The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,A Family of Poems, and the coauthor of The Right to Privacy andIn Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action. She serves as the Vice Chair of the Fund for Public Schools in New York City and President of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. She lives in New York City.

From AudioFile:

A PATRIOT'S HANDBOOK is not a true audiobook. Rather, it is a masterful audio compilation of American songs, poems, stories, speeches, and other sources--recordings that tell the story of America, and why she remains a unique symbol of freedom. Many of the recordings are the originals, while others are performed by actors and politicians. This is that rare production that is best savored over time, as one listens one day to Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, followed by Ronald Reagan's "Farewell Address," and the next by the letters between John and Abigail Adams. This unique program will serve for generations as an audio-textbook to students of American history of all ages. D.J.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Hyperion
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1401307671
• ISBN 13: 9781401307677
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 688