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Index
Cover
Publisher's Note
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Genesis
The Exodus Story
John Winthrop, “A Model of Chris tian Charity” (1630)
Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
The Declaration of Independence (1776)
Noah Webster, The Blue-Back Speller (1783–)
Law
The Constitution (1787)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Chronicles
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (1957)
Psalms
Francis Scott Key, “The Star-Spangled Banner” (1814)
Irving Berlin, “God Bless America” (1938)
Woody Guthrie, “This Land Is Your Land” (1940)
Proverbs
Benjamin Franklin, “Remember that Time is Money” (1748)
Benjamin Franklin, “God Helps Those Who Help Themselves” (1758)
Patrick Henry, “Give me Liberty or Give me Death” (1775)
Abigail Adams, “Remember the Ladies” (1776)
Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a woman?” (1851)
Abraham Lincoln, “With Malice Toward None, with Charity for all” (1865)
Chief Joseph, “I will Fight no More Forever” (1877)
Calvin Coolidge, “The Business of America is Business” (1925)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people” (1932)
John F. Kennedy, “Ask not what your country can do for you— ask what you can do for your country” (1961)
Ronald Reagan, “evil empire” (1983)
Prophets
Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience” (1849)
Dwight Eisenhower, Farewell Address (1961)
Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream” (1963)
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
Lamentations
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863)
Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1982)
Gospels
Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address (1801)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (1933)
Ronald Reagan, “The Speech” (1964)
Acts
The Pledge of Allegiance (1892, 1954)
Epistles
George Washington, Farewell Address (1796)
Thomas Jefferson, “Letter to the Danbury Baptists” (1802)
Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (1963)
Epilogue
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Notes
Credits
Books by Stephen Prothero
Copyright
About the Publishers
Footnotes
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