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A patriot's handbook [compact disc] : poems, stories, and speeches celebrating the land we love / selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy.

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[New York] : Hyperion Audiobooks, p2003.

Speeches, addresses, etc., American.

Patriotism -- Literary collections.

Patriotism -- United States.

Patriotic poetry, American.

American literature.

United States -- Literary collections.

3 sound discs (ca. 3.5 hr.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.

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.

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