1: MAN IN WAR
Profile: Donovan Campbell by David Wilezol.
“St. Crispin’s Day Speech” from Henry V in The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare, edited by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke. London: Bickers and Son, 1864.
Response to the Archbishop of Canterbury by Secretary of State Colin Powell from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 26, 2003.
“Character of the Happy Warrior” from The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth, edited by Henry Reed. Philadelphia: Hayes and Zell, 1854.
“The Campaigns of Alexander the Great” by Alexander the Great, told by Arrian, the Roman Historian, from The Anabasis of Alexander; or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great, translated with commentary by E. J. Chinnock. London: Hodder and Stroughton, 1884.
Profile: Joshua Marcellino by Nathan Martin.
“Concord Hymn” from The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Edward Waldo Emerson. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904.
“This Was Their Finest Hour” by Winston Churchill, speech delivered to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on June 18, 1940.
David and Goliath: 1 Samuel 17:1–58 NKJV.
Profile: Rick Rescorla by Christopher Beach.
Funeral Oration by Pericles. Thucydides: II 34–46, The Funeral Oration of Pericles.
“Before Action” from Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War 1914– 1917 by W. N. Hodgson, edited by George Herbert Clarke. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917.
“Battle Is a Joyous Thing” by Jean de Brueil.
The Navy SEAL Creed reprinted with permission from www.navyseals.com and Navy SEALs Special Warfare Command.
“Bivouac of the Dead” by Theodore O’Hara, from The Bivouac of the Dead and Its Author by George Washington Ranck and Theodore O’Hara. Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company, 1898.
Profile: Red Falvey by Nathan Martin.
“Be Ye the Avengers of Noble Blood” by William the Conqueror from British historical & political orations: From the XIIth to the XXth century, edited by Ernest Rhys. London: J. M. Dent & Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1915.
Profile: Alvin York by Christopher Beach, compiled from historical sources: The Alvin C. York Institute. http://www2.york.k12.tn.us/YorkHome.html; Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen by Christopher Capozzola. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008; http://www.practicalmanliness.com/alvin-york-%E2%80%93-hero-of-world-war-i/.
Remarks on the Fortieth Anniversary of D-Day by Ronald Reagan, delivered at Pointe du Hoc, France, on June 6, 1984.
From The Apology from The Dialogues of Plato, vol. 1, by Plato. New York: Scribner, Armstrong, and Co., 1873.
“The Soldier’s Faith” from Speeches, by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1896.
“Of Man” from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, reprinted in “English Prose (1137–1890)” by John Matthews Manly. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1909.
“The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Lord Alfred Tennyson. London: Gale House, 1857.
“We Shall Fight Them on the Beaches” by Winston Churchill, delivered to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on June 4, 1940.
The Iliad of Homer with a Verse Translation by W. C. Green. London: Longmans and Co., 1884.
Profile: John Leone by Nathan Martin.
Beowulf translated by Francis B Gummere. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/981/981.txt.
“In Flanders Fields” from In Flanders Fields: and Other Poems by John McCrae. New York, London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1910.
Horatius at the Bridge from The History of Rome, vol. 1 by Titus Livius Livy. Translated by D. Spillan. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1879.
“Duty, Honor, Country” by General Douglas MacArthur. Published with the approval of the General Douglas MacArthur Foundation, MacArthur Square, Norfolk, Virginia.
“The War Sonnets” from The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke by Rupert Brooke. New York: John Lane Company, 1920.
Profile: Audie Murphy reprinted with the permission of the Arlington National Cemetery, http://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/historical_information/audie_murphy.html.
2: MAN AT WORK
Profile: Terry Toussaint by Christopher Beach.
“Work” by Eliza Cook from McGuffey’s Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey. Cincinnati: American Book Company, 1879.
“The Plough Boy” by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith, from Parley’s Poetical Present. Worcester: J. Grout, Jr., ca. 1800.
“How Do You Tackle Your Work?” by Edgar Guest, published in “A Heap o’ Livin’.” Chicago: The Reilly and Lee Co., 1916.
The Gift of God: Ecclesiastes 3:10–15 NKJV.
“Two Years Before the Mast” by Richard Henry Dana, from Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1842.
“The Parable of the Talents”: Matthew 25:14–30 NKJV.
“The Strenuous Life” by Theodore Roosevelt from The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses. New York: The Century Co., 1902.
“The Work Is What Counts” by Theodore Roosevelt, from Presidential Addresses and State Papers: February 19, 1902 to May 13, 1903 by Theodore Roosevelt. New York: The Review of Reviews Company, 1910.
“No Man Is Happy If He Does Not Work” by Theodore Roosevelt from A Compilation of the Messages and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt, 1901–1905 by Theodore Roosevelt, edited by Alfred Henry Lewis. Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1906.
Saving Time from Ad Lucilium epistulae morales, Books I–LXI by Seneca. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1917.
Profile: Incwell by Nathan Martin.
“Works and Days” from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica by Hesiod. London: Heinemann, 1920.
From The Sea-Wolf by Jack London. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904.
Profile: Coach Ken by Nathan Martin.
“A Humorist’s Confession” by Mark Twain, from The New York Times, November 26, 1905. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0612FF3F5C1A728DDDAF0A94D9415B858CF1D3.
“Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from The Code Poetical Reader, for School and Home Use by A Teacher. London: Burns and Oats, 1877.
“The Spiritual Value of Work” by Mark Judge. Reprinted with the permission of the author. http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2009/12/the_spiritual_value_of_work.html .
From The Future of the American Negro by Booker T. Washington. Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1900.
From Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington. New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1907.
The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin, from The Life of Benjamin Franklin by Leonard Woods. London: Printed for Hunt and Clarke, 1826.
“Charmides” from The Dialogues of Plato by Plato. New York: Oxford University Press, American branch, 1892.
Profile: George Gershwin: Merle Armitage, George Gershwin. Emeryville, CA: Da Capo Press, 1995. William Hyland, George Gershwin: A New Biography. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003. Howard Pollack, George Gershwin: His Life and Work. Berkeley, CA: UC Press, 2006. Walter Rimley, George Gershwin, An Intimate Portrait. Champagin, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009.
“Chuck Yeager Breaks Sound Barrier” from The American Patriot’s Almanac by William Bennett and John Cribb. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2008.
From Democracy in America, vol. 2, by Alexis de Tocqueville. New York: J. and H. G. Langley, 1840.
Profile: Michel Faulkner by David Wilezol and Christopher Beach.
“Middlemarch” from Middlemarch: a Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1873.
“The Four Chaplains of World War II” from The American Patriot’s Almanac by William Bennett and John Cribb. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2008.
Paradise Lost by John Milton, from The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper, edited by Samuel Johnson and Alexander Chalmers. London: Printed for J. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, 1810.
From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus Washington Greely. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1912.
“Men Wanted for Hazardous Journey” by Christopher Beach, written from historical sources: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton; Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia by Jennifer Speake. New York: Taylor & Francis, 2003.
“Inaugural Address at Edinburgh” by Thomas Carlyle, from Autobiography: Essay on Liberty by John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle. New York: P.F. Collier and Son Company, 1909.
“On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes” by William Ellery Channing, from The Works of William E. Channing by William Ellery Channing. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1845.
Profile: David Aikman by Nathan Martin.
Emerson on Labor from Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1883.
Some Fruits of Solitude from The Select Works of William Penn by William Penn. London: Printed and sold by J.Phillips, 1782.
Selections from Meditations in The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus by Marcus Aurelius. Translated by George Long. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1889.
Pensées in Thoughts by Blaise Pascal. New York: P. F. Collier and Son Company, 1910.
3: MAN IN PLAY, SPORTS, AND LEISURE
Profile: “Pistol” Pete Maravich, rewritten from sources by Christopher Beach: http://www.pistol-pete-videos.com/maravich_biography.htm; http://www.pistolpete23.com/Pistol_Lived_Up_In_End.htm.
“Do You Fear the Wind?” by Hamlin Garland, from The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580–1912, vol. 4, 1253–1648. New York: H. Holt and company, 1915.
“It Is a Pleasant Day” by Peter Parley, from Parley’s Poetical Present. Worcester: J. Grout, Jr., ca. 1800.
“The Answer” from Songs of the Stalwart by Grantland Rice. New York: D. Appleton and company, 1917.
“Playing the Game” by Anonymous.
“The Quitter” by Robert W. Service, appearing in Public Service, vol. 22. H. J. Gonden, 1917.
Profile: Eddie Aikau by Christopher Beach.
“The American Boy” by Theodore Roosevelt, from an essay published in St. Nicholas May, 1900. http://www.foundationsmag.com/americanboy-com.html.
“A President and His Leisure” from An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1913.
“Coin Collecting” from The Numismatist, vols. 12–13. American Numismatic Association, 1899.
“The New Coney Island” from The Century Illustrated Magazine, Vol. 68. New York: The Century Co., 1904.
“A Nation’s Pastime” from America’s National Game by Albert Goodwill Spalding. American Sports Publishing Company, 1911.
“Leisure” by William Henry Davies, from The Living Age, vol. 274. Boston: Littell, Son and Co., 1912.
On Gardening by Francis Bacon, appearing in The American Cotton Planter: a Monthly Journal Devoted to Improved Plantation Economy, vol. 2, edited by N. B. Cloud. Published by the Cleveland Academy of Natural Science, 1854.
“Finding Troy” from Troy and Its Remains: a Narrative of Researches and Discoveries Made on the Site of Ilium, and in the Trojan Plain by Heinrich Schliemann. New York: J. Murray, 1875.
“A Father to His Son, upon Leaving for College” from A Father to His Son: A Letter to an Undergraduate upon His Entering College by John D. Swain. New Haven: Yale publishing association, 1912.
Tragedy on K2, rewritten from historical sources by Christopher Beach.
Abe Lincoln Wrestles Jack Armstrong from Abraham Lincoln: A History, vol. 1, by John G. Nicolay and John Hay. New York: The Century Co., 1890.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. New York: The Modern Library, 2002.
“The Traffic Guard” by Christopher Beach, published in Surfer magazine, June 2010.
“The Art of Fencing” by Louis and Regis Senac, from The Art of Fencing by Regis Senac, Louis Senac, and Edward Breck. New York: American Sports Publishing Co., 1915.
A Day At the Ancient Olympic Games by Anacharsis of Scythia, appearing in The Dictionary of Useful Knowledge by R.K. Philp. London: Houlston and Wright, 1861.
Learning Languages for Fun by Benjamin Franklin, from Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 1, by Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, and William Duane. Philadelphia: M’Carty and Davis, 1834.
“An Autumn Effect” from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, vol. 4, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Edinburgh: printed by T. and A. Constable for Longmans Green and Co. and sold by Chatto and Windus, London, 1896.
Filling Days and Finding Relaxation from The Letters of the Younger Pliny by Pliny the Younger. K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., Ltd., 1890.
“Angler Grove Cleveland” by A. M. Stoddart from The Oregon Sportsman, vols. 3–5. Portland: Published under the Fish and Game Commission, 1915.
Profile: Milan High School and the 1953 Indiana State Championship by David Wilezol: Greg Guffey, The Greatest Basketball Story Ever Told: The 1954 Milan Miracle. Bloomington, IN.: Indiana University Press, 2003, xi. Phillip M. Hoose, “Indiana’s Cinderella Basketball Team,” in Ralph Gray, Indiana History: A Book of Readings. Bloomington, IN: IUP, 408–410.
Leo Tolstoy the Chess Player by Edward Winter, from The British Chess Magazine, vol. 17. London: Trubner and Co., 1897.
Profile: Cal Ripken, Jr., the Iron Man of Baseball by Christopher Beach: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/quotes/quoripk.shtml. What They Said in 1995: The Yearbook of World Opinion compiled and edited by Alan F. Pater, Jason R. Pater. Palm Springs, CA: Monitor Book Co, 1996.
“In Defense of Sports” by William J. Bennett, from Commentary Magazine. New York: Feb. 1976.
Buster Douglas Defeats Mike Tyson by David Wilezol: Bryan Armen Graham, “Douglas reflects on upset, talks Pacquiao-Mayweather, MMA,” Sports Illustrated. Online Edition. Feb. 11, 2010. Jemele Hill, “Buster Douglas: The Upset’s Other Side.” ESPN.com, Feb. 12, 2010. Accessed June 13, 2011. “The Moments: Mike Tyson vs. Buster Douglas.” East Side Boxing.com. December 12, 2005. Richard O’Brien, “Douglas’ Knockout of Tyson Still Resonates 20 Years Later,” Sports Illustrated. Online Edition. Feb. 11, 2010. Jeremy Schapp, “Busting the Myths of Tyson-Douglas.” ESPN.com, February 12, 2010. Accessed June 13, 2011.
“The National Game” from The Book of American Pastimes: Containing a History of the Principal Base Ball, Cricket, Rowing, and Yachting Clubs of the United States by Charles Peverelly. New York: Published by the author, 1866.
Practice Makes Perfect by Christopher Beach.
Profile: Aaron Rodgers by Christopher Beach: http://espn.go.com/blog/rick-reilly-go-fish/post/_/id/826/aaron-rodgers-unforgettable-forgiveness/post/_/id/826/aaron-rodgers-unforgettable-forgiveness.
“Little Bob’s First Bass” from Tragic Fishing Moments by Will H. Dilg. Chicago: Reilly and Lee, 1922.
“Hunting the Grisly” from Hunting the Grisly: and Other Sketches by Theodore Roosevelt. New York: Review of Reviews, 1910.
1980 U.S. Ice Hockey Team Miracle on Ice, rewritten from historical sources by David Wilezol: Dave Anderson, “Ice Hockey, the Russian Way,” New York Times. Feb. 18, 1980; Wayne Coffey, The Boys of Winter. New York City: Crown Publishers, 2005; Gerald Eskenazi, “U.S. Defeats Soviet Squad in Olympic Hockey by 4-3,” New York Times. Feb. 23, 1980; Leonard Shapiro, “U.S. Shocks Soviets in Ice Hockey, 4-3,” Washington Post. Feb. 23, 1980: D1.
On Leisure from Ad Lucilium epistulae morales, Books LXCI–XCII by Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1920.
The Thrilla in Manila, rewritten from historical sources by David Wilezol: “Ali, Frazier Make $1 Million Side Bet,” New York Times. July 2, 1975: 23. Dave Anderson, “Ali Retains Title as Fight is Stopped in 14th,” New York Times. Oct. 1, 1975: 93. Joel Dreyfuss, “Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like A Bee,” The Washington Post. Sept. 2, 1975. William Barry Furlong, “This Morning,” The Washington Post. Sept. 24, 1975: D1. ———, “This Morning,” The Washington Post. Sept. 30. 1975: D1. Glen Schouw, “Greatest heavyweight fight!” The Daily News (Natal), Oct. 6, 2005. Wilfred Sheed, “Boxing Fans Violently Split,” The Washington Post. Sept. 24, 1975: F1.
“Prepared for a Rain” from Tragic Fishing Moments by Will H. Dilg. Chicago: Reilly and Lee, 1922.
Profile: Mario Andretti, rewritten from historical sources by David Wilezol: “Interview with Mario Andretti and Tom Lee,” Auto Racing Daily. Autoracingdaily.com. Nov. 10, 2010. Accessed June 13, 2011. Larry Schwartz, “Super Mario Had Speed to Burn.” ESPN.com. June 14, 2007. Accessed June 13, 2011.
Piers Paul Read’s Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by William J. Bennett. Commentary Magazine, August 1974.
4: MAN IN THE POLIS
“Not Yours to Give” by David Crockett, from The Life of Colonel David Crockett by Edward S. Ellis. Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1884.
Profile: Zudhi Jasser by Nathan Martin.
The Athenian Oath from The Civic Searchlight. Detroit: Detroit Citizens League, 1915.
“A Politician and a Hero” by Richard J. Hinton from True Stories of Heroic Lives: Stirring Tales of Courage and Devotion of Men and Women of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1899.
From Politics by Aristotle, in The Library of Original Sources: The Greek World, edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher. New York: University Research Extension, 1907.
“A Nation’s Strength” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Carpenter, vol. 25. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, 1905.
A Navy SEAL by Christopher Beach.
“Of the Beginning of Political Societies” from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke. Project Gutenberg, 1690. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7370/7370-h/7370-h.htm.
Profile: Dave Pereda by Christopher Beach.
National Greatness by Pericles, from History of the Peloponnesian War translated into English by Richard Crawley. London: J.M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., 1914.
“Love of Country” by Sir Walter Scott, from Choice Literature, Book 7. American Book Co., 1912.
From De Officiis (On Duties) by Marcus Tullius Cicero. Translated by Walter Miller. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1913.
“Power Tends to Corrupt” by Lord Acton from Historical Essays and Studies by Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1907.
Lectures and Miscellanies from Lectures and Miscellanies by Henry James. New York: Redfield, 1852.
“Hávamál” from The Poetic Edda, translated by Henry Adams Bellows. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1936.
From A Man and His Money by Harvey Reeves Calkins. New York and Cincinnati: The Methodist Book Concern, 1914.
From “Acres of Diamonds” in Acres of Diamonds by Russell Herman Conwell. New York: Harper and Brothers 1915.
The Duties of Citizenship by William Jennings Bryan, from The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896, vol. 3. Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, 1896.
From The Royal Art by William Jennings Bryan. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1914.
The Ethics of Politics from Great Men and Great Movements: a Volume of Addresses by Charles Betts Galloway. Nashville, TN: Publishing House Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Smith and Lamar, agents, 1914.
“Duties of American Citizenship” by Theodore Roosevelt. A speech delivered in Buffalo, New York, Jan. 26, 1883.
Profiles of Law Enforcement, printed with permission from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
Reflections on the Revolution of France from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, vols. 5–6, by Edmund Burke. London: Printed for C. and J. Rivington, 1826.
Civil and Political Association from Democracy in America, vol. 2, by Alexis de Tocqueville. New York: Colonial Press, 1899.
“The Political Duties of Christian Men and Ministers: a Sermon for the Times Delivered at Jackson, July 28, 1854” by James S. Smart. Detroit: Baker and Conover, 1854.
From “The Capacity for Greatness” by Theodore Roosevelt, in A Compilation of the Messages and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt, 1901–1905, Vol. 2. Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1906.
Profile: Álvaro Uribe Vélez by Christopher Beach.
Good Citizenship from Good Citizenship by Grover Cleveland. Philadelphia: H. Altemus, 1908.
Good Citizenship Dependent upon Great Citizens from Public Mindedness: an Aspect of Citizenship Considered in Various Addresses Given While President of Dartmouth College by William Jewett Tucker. Concord: The Rumford press, 1909.
Cato the Younger by Plutarch, from Plutarch’s Lives of Illustrious Men, translated from the Greek and revised by A. H. Clough. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1880.
Taking Command by George Washington, from The Story-Life of Washington: a Life-history in Five Hundred True Stories by Wayne Whipple. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1911.
From Arthur James Balfour: the Man and His Work by Bernard Alderson. London: G. Richards, 1903.
From Foundations of the Republic by Calvin Coolidge, reprinted with permission from the University of the Pacific Press. Originally published by University of the Pacific Press, 1926.
Duty by Horatio Kitchener, from Life of Lord Kitchener, vol. 3, by Sir George Arthur. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920.
Profile: Jaime Escalante by Christopher Beach, written from The De-Valuing of America: the Fight for Our Culture and Our Children by William J. Bennett. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992
A Story of Civic Improvement from Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 1, by Benjamin Franklin. Philadelphia: M’Carty and Davis, 1834.
The Story of Cincinnatus, retold by James Baldwin. Reprinted from The Book of Virtues by William John Bennett. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.
Compromise from The Works of Henry Clay: Speeches by Henry Clay, edited by Calvin Colton, LL.D. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904.
Five Keys to Democratic Statesmanship from Heroes: What Great Statesmen Have to Teach Us by Paul Johnson. Imprimis, December 2007. Reprinted by permission from Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College.
“Hello, Freedom Man” by Ronald Reagan, from his Farewell Address to the Nation delivered Jan. 11, 1989, Washington D.C.
Choosing Just Men from History of the United States by Noah Webster. New Haven: S. Babcock, 1837.
Heroes of Science from Heroic Lives by Albert Ross Vail and Emily McClellan Vail. Boston: Beacon Press, 1917.
“To Defend and Enjoy His Own” from The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster by Rochester: W. M. Hayward, 1853.
Profile: Marco Rubio, rewritten from historical sources by Christopher Beach.
Profile: Ray Sorensen and the Freedom Rock by David Wilezol, compiled from: “Artist Turns Iowa Graffiti Rock into Military Tribute” by John D. Banusiewicz. Armed Forces Press Service, Nov. 17, 2003. http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=27770; “Message Takes Shape on Freedom Rock” by Kyle Munson. Des Moines Register. May 24, 2011. http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110504/NEWS03/105040345/Munson-Message-takes-shape-Freedom-Rock-; “Artist’s Tribute Has Become Sacred to Vets.” USA Today, May 22, 2007. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-05-21-rock-art_N.htm.
What You Can Do for Your Country by John F. Kennedy, from his Inaugural Address, delivered Jan. 20, 1961.
In Harm’s Way for Others from The Fireman’s Own Book by George P. Little. Boston: Dillingham and Bragg, 1860.
Irrationally Patriotic from Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton. New York: John Lane Company, 1909.
Abraham Lincoln’s Lyceum Address, “Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, Jan. 27, 1838” from Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings, vol. 1, edited by John G. Nicholay and John Hay. New York: The Century Co., 1920.
5: MAN WITH WOMAN AND CHILDREN
Profile: Chris Scott by David Wilezol.
“When You Are Old” from Selected Poems by William Butler Yeats. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921.
“Down by the Salley Gardens” from Selected Poems by William Butler Yeats. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1921.
Robert E. Lee from Success: A Book of Ideals, Helps, and Examples for All Desiring to Make the Most of Life by Orison Swett Marden. Boston and Chicago: W. A. Wilde and Company, 1897.
“Love Among the Ruins” from The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning, vol. 2, by Robert Browning. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895.
Duff Cooper’s Letter to Diana, His Future Wife, Aug. 20, 1918.
Leo Tolstoy’s Letter to His Fiancée, Valeria Arsenev, Nov. 2, 1856.
“A Father’s Gift to His Son, on His Becoming an Apprentice: to Which Is Added Dr. Franklin’s Way to Wealth,” author unknown. New York: Samuel Wood and Sons, 1821.
Advice to Boys from Advice to Boys by Lewis Johnston. Pine Bluff: Richard Allen Institute, ca. 1900.
Profile: Nolan Ryan by Christopher Beach.
From She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith, in The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With an Account of His Life and Writings, edited by Washington Irving. Philadelphia: J. Crissy and J. Grigg, 1830.
Excerpt from Bleak House in The Writings of Charles Dickens: Bleak House by Charles Dickens. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894.
Two Poems by Robert Browning, from The Robert Browning Year-Book: a Selection of Passages for Every Day in the Year from His Writings, in Verse and Prose. Compiled by J. R. Tutin. Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, Hay and Mitchell, 1890. The Poetical Works of Robert Browning, vol. 9, by Robert Browning. New York: Macmillan and Co., 1894.
From Don Juan in The Works of Lord Byron Complete in One Volume by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron. Francfort, O. M.: H. L. Broenner, 1837.
Penelope by Homer from The Odyssey edited and translated by Samuel Butler. London: A.C. Fifield, 1900.
Telemachus by Homer from The Odyssey edited and translated by Samuel Butler. London: A.C. Fifield, 1900.
George Washington to Martha from The Story-Life of Washington: A Life-History in Five Hundred True Stories by Wayne Whipple. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1911.
Pierre Curie by Marie Curie from Pierre Curie by Marie Curie, with autobiographical notes by Marie Curie. Translated by Charlotte and Vernon Kellogg. New York: Macmillan, 1923.
“Annabel Lee” from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2, by Edgar Allan Poe. New York: W. J. Widdleton, 1863.
Antony and Cleopatra from The Works of John Dryden, vol. 5, by John Dryden, edited by Walter Scott. London: James Ballentyne and Co. Edinburgh, 1808.
Abraham Lincoln and Grace Bedell, from The American Patriot’s Almanac by William Bennett and John Cribb. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2008.
Marcus Cato from Plutarch’s Lives of Illustrious Men by Plutarch, translated from the Greek and revised by A. H. Clough. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1880.
The Influence of a Father from Autobiography by John Stuart Mill. New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1909.
The Farmer and His Sons from The Book of Fables: Chiefly from Aesop by Aesop; Chosen and phrased by Horace E. Scudder. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882.
Things to Tell Your Children or Grandchildren from 50 Rules Kids Won’t Learn in School by Charles J. Sykes, printed with permission from Charles J. Sykes. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2007.
Fatherhood by Ronald Reagan, Presidential Radio Address, June 14, 1986.
The Best Things in Life from Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913.
Teddy Roosevelt with His Children from Selections from Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt, edited by Ernest Ruse. Tokyo: Uchida Rokakuho, 1906.
Jonathan Edwards with His Children from The Life of President Edwards by Sereno Edwards Dwight. New York: G. and C. and H. Carvill, 1830.
“On My First Sonne” by Ben Jonson, from The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, edited by Samuel Johnson and Alexander Chalmers. London: Printed for J. Johnson, J. Nichols and Son, 1810.
“A Boy of Much Promise” by Calvin Coolidge, from The Autobiography by Calvin Coolidge Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1929. Reprinted with permission from the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation and the great-grandchildren of Calvin Coolidge.
“Bone of My Bones”: Genesis 2:19–24 NKJV.
Finding a Good Wife: Proverbs 31:10–31 NKJV.
From Sketches of Young Couples in The Works of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens. London: Chapman and Hall, Limited; and Henry Frowde, 1908.
What is Love? from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot. Montreal: Dawson Brothers, 1876.
“True and False Manliness” by James Freeman Clarke, appearing in The Christian Life, vol. 10. London: Jan. 5, 1884.
From Canal Boy to President in From Canal Boy to President: or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield by Horatio Alger, Jr. Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske, and Co., 1881.
Thomas Carlyle’s Advice to Young Men, appearing in The Treasury of Modern Biography, compiled by R. Cochrane. London and Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1878.
Are You Well Bred? From The American Magazine, vol. 92. New York: The Crowell Publishing Company, 1921.
Profile: David Gelernter by Nathan Martin.
“Courtship and Matrimony” from Courtship and Matrimony: With Other Sketches from Scenes and Experiences in Social Life: Particularly Adapted for Every-day Reading by Robert Morris. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, 1858.
From Self-Control, Its Kinship and Majesty in The Kingship of Self-Control: Individual Problems and Possibilities by William George Jordan. New York: F. H. Revell, 1899.
A Father’s Legacy from The Iliad by Homer, translated by Samuel Butler 1898.
“A Manly Boy” from Draper’s Self Culture by Andrew Sloan Draper. New York: Ferd Kaiser, 1907.
From The Marriage Guide for Young Men: A Manual of Courtship and Marriage by George W. Hudson. Ellsworth, ME: published by the author, 1883.
Letter to a Sickly Child from A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith, vol. 2, by Sydney Smith. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855.
Response to a Fan Letter of Sorts from The Letters of Charles Dickens: 1833–1856 by Charles Dickens, edited by Georgina Hogarth and Mamie Dickens. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1879.
A Father’s Prayer by Douglas MacArthur, published with the approval of the General Douglas MacArthur Foundation, MacArthur Square, Norfolk, Virginia.
“Only a Dad” by Edgar Guest, appearing in The Book of Virtues: a Treasury of Great Moral Stories by William John Bennett. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. Reprinted with permission of the author.
Letter to a Bereaved Husband by Samuel Johnson, from Life of Johnson by James Boswell, edited by John Wilson Croker. London: John Murray, 1876.
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Letter to His Daughter from Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife: a Biography, vol. 1, by Julian Hawthorne. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin company, 1884.
Profile: “A Shau Valley” by Nathan Martin.
Thomas Jefferson Letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith from Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson, edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Charlottesville: F. Carr, and Co., 1829.
“Dr. Johnson and His Father” from Thirty More Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin. London: American Book Company, 1905.
Profile: Bill Phillips by Nathan Martin: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2010/08/11/AR2010081106502.html; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2010/11/24/AR2010112403208.html.
6: MAN IN PRAYER AND REFLECTION
The Our Father (or the Lord’s Prayer): Matthew 6:9–13 NKJV.
The Glory Be from Congregational Church Hymnal, edited by George S. Barrett. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1887.
A Child’s Grace from Wonders of Providence: Remarkable and Authentic Providential Stories, compiled by Rev. J Martin Rohde. Chicago: The Evangelical Publishing Co., 1911.
“We Thank Thee” by Rebecca Weston, from The Character Building Readers, Part 2, by Ellen E. Kenyon-Warner. New York, Philadelphia: Hinds, Noble and Eldredge, 1910.
Profile: Os Guinness by Nathan Martin.
“Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep” from The New-England Primer: a History of Its Origin and Development, edited by Paul Leicester Ford. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1897.
Tuning the Soul by Robert Murray M’Cheyne, from Moody Bible Institute Monthly, vol. 21, by Moody Bible Institute. Chicago: The Moody Bible Institute, 1920.
Unspoken Prayer by Anonymous.
“May I Know Thee More Clearly” by Saint Richard, from The Churchman’s Prayer Manual by G. R. Bullock-Webster, 31, Acts and Devotion. Prayer 48, 1913.
Harry S. Truman’s Daily Prayer, reprinted with permission of the Harry S. Truman Library.
“On Self-Improvement” from Scouting for Boys (first published ed.) by Lord Robert Baden Powell, London, Windsor House, Bream’s Buildings, E.C.: Horace Cox (printer for C.A. Pearson). January–March 1908.
Matins (Morning Prayer) from Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected, by Robert Herrick, edited by W. Carew Hazlitt. London: John Russell Smith, 1869.
A Prayer for Guidance by George Washington, from Washington’s Prayers, edited by W. Herbert Buck. Norristown, PA: 1907.
A Prayer for Peace by Abraham Lincoln, from The History of Abraham Lincoln and the Overthrow of Slavery by Isaac D. Arnold. Chicago, Clarke and Co., 1866.
A Prayer in Dark Times by Franklin D. Roosevelt, from the U.S. Congressional Record, 110th Congress, First Session, 2009. Vol. 153. Pt. II.
A Prayer of Gratitude by John F. Kennedy, from “Thanksgiving Day 1963, Proclamation 3560.” Federal Register, Title 3-The President, 1959–1963: 313.
A Prayer for a Meaningful Life by Jimmy Carter, from his Inaugural Address. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter%27s_Inaugural_Address. Accessed June 20, 2011 and “Thanksgiving Day, 1980, Proclamation 4803.” Federal Register, Title 3-The President, 1980: 118.
A Prayer for Healing by Ronald Reagan, from a speech delivered Feb. 6, 1980.
A Prayer to Help Others by George H. W. Bush, from his “Inaugural Address,” Washington DC, January 20, 1989.
A Prayer for the Departed by George W. Bush, from “Address on the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for the Victims of the Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001,” Washington DC, Sept. 14, 2001.
“The Examined Life” by Plato, from The Apology of Socrates, edited and translated by D. F. Nevill. London: F. E. Robinson and Co., 1901.
Aids to Reflection by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by W. G. T. Shedd. New York: Harper and Bros., 1884.
“A Student’s Prayer” by Thomas Aquinas, from Prayers of the Ages, edited by Caroline S. Whitmarsh. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868.
“That Which . . . Had Been Long Looked For” from A Narrative of Some of the Lord’s Dealings with George Muller, Part II, by George Müller. London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1855.
An Instrument of Peace by St. Francis of Assisi, originally published in French in La Clochette, n° 12, déc. 1912: 285.
Profile: St. Damien de Veuster: The American Catholic Quarterly Review, vol. 15. Philadelphia: Hardy and Mahony, 1890. “Father Damien: an Open Letter to the Reverend Doctor Hyde of Honolulu” by Robert Louis Stevenson. London: Chatto and Windus, 1890. http://www.stdamiens.org/02stdamienbiography.html.
Call to Prayer by General Robert E. Lee, from Life and Letters of Robert Edward Lee: Soldier and Man by John William Jones. New York and Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1906.
Times That Try Men’s Souls by Thomas Paine, from Selections from Early American Writers: 1607– 1800 by William B. Cairns. New York: Macmillan, 1912.
“Forms of Prayer at Sea” from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, vol. 4, by William Wordsworth. London: Edward Moxon, 1846.
“The Pilgrim Fathers” by William Wordsworth, from The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, edited by Henry Reed. Philadelphia: Troutman and Hayes, 1851.
The Amidah translated by David Bivin, in Jerusalem Perspective (see also New Light on the Difficult Worlds of Jesus, Insights from His Jewish Context by David Bivin) quoted from CBN.com.
A Soldier’s Prayer, reprinted with permission of the Hodgeman County Courthouse. http://www.hodgemancountyks.com/courthouse.html.
Thanksgiving Proclamation by George Washington from the George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress. New York, Oct. 3, 1789, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/GW/gw004.html.
“My God Shall Raise Me Up” by Sir Walter Raleigh, from Flowers of the Cave by Laurie Magnus and Cecil Headlam. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1901.
From The Power of Prayer: Illustrated in the Wonderful Displays of Divine Grace at the Fulton Street and Other Meetings in New York and Elsewhere, in 1857 and 1858 by Samuel Irenaeus Prime. New York: Charles Scribner, 1859.
“Matins” from The Temple by George Herbert. London: Pickering, 1838.
Eulogy for Abraham Lincoln by Matthew Simpson from Memorial Record of the Nation’s Tribute to Abraham Lincoln, compiled by B. F. Morris. Washington DC: W. H. and O. H. Morrison, 1865.
“In Prayer” from The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers, edited by Arthur Bennett. Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1975.
Prayer and the Individual Life by Henry B. F. MacFarland, from Men and Religion, published for the Men and Religion Forward Movement. New York: Young Men’s Christian Association Press, 1911.
Four Thoughts on Prayer by St. Augustine of Hippo, from Prayer: the Key of Salvation by Michael Müller. Baltimore: Kelly and Piet, 1868.
From The Confessions of Saint Augustine by Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo; Translated by E. B. Pusey. Chatto and Windus, 1921, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3296/pg3296.html.
Prayer of St. Benedict. The Benedictine Fellowship of Saint Laurence, http://saintlaurenceosb.org/prayer.html.
Homily 6 on Prayer by St. John Chrysostom. http://www.vatican.va/spirit/documents/spirit_20010302_giovanni-crisostomo_en.html.
“Universal Prayer” from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, vol. 3, by Alexander Pope. London: F. J. Du Roveray, 1804.
National Day of Prayer by Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation 97. Appointing a Day of National Humiliation, Fasting, and Prayer, March 30, 1863.
“A Prayer Under the Pressure of Violent Anguish” from The Works of Robert Burns: Poetry by Robert Burns. Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1877.
Begin the Day with Prayer from Preacher and Prayer by Edward McKendree Bounds. Nashville and Dallas: Publishing House of the M.E. Church, South, 1907.
From “Praying Men Are God’s Mightiest Leaders” from Purpose in Prayer by Edward McKendree Bounds. NewYork: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1920.
“A Prayer in Darkness” by G. K. Chesterton, from Modern British Poetry, edited by Louis Untermeyer. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1920.
Address at the Episcopal National Cathedral by Rev. Billy Graham, delivered September 14, 2001. Printed with Permission from Franklin Graham and The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
“Let My Thoughts Abide in Thee” from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, vol. 8, by Robert Louis Stevenson. London: William Heinemann in association with Chatto and Windus; Cassell and Company Limited; and Longmans, Green and Company; New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922.
New Year’s Prayer from The Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. 2, by Samuel Johnson. New York: George Dearborn, 1837.
Resolutions from The Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. 2, by Samuel Johnson. New York: George Dearborn, 1837.
The Martyrdom of Polycarp of Smyrna from The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers, translated by Alexander Roberts and Sir James Donaldson. Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1867.
“The Upward Look” by Boethius, from King Alfred’s Books by G. F. Browne. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1920.
“Prayer of Columbus” from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1884.
Litany of Humility by Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val, from Gold Dust: a Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life, translated and abridged from the French by C. M. Yonge. London: J. Masters and Co., 1880.
Praying in Faith from A Treatise on Good Works by Martin Luther, 1520, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/418/418-h/418-h.htm.
What a Great Gift We Have in Prayer by Martin Luther, from The Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin Luther by Captain Henry Bell. Lewes: Sussex Press, 1818.
A Prayer for a Good Death from English Prayers and Treatise on the Holy Eucharist by Thomas More, edited by Philip E. Hallett. London: Oates and Washbourne, 1938.
Prayer Found in the Heart by C. H. Spurgeon, delivered at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in Newington, Jan. 16, 1876. Published Thursday, Feb. 4, 1904.
The Anima Christi from Blessed Sacrament Book by Francis Xavier Lasance. New York: Benziger Brothers, 1913.
Agnus Dei from The Prayer Book Dictionary, edited by George Harford, Morley Stevenson, and John Walton Tyrer. New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1912.