Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-436).
Contents:
The stunt pilot / Annie Dillard. The torture myth / Anne Applebaum -- Recipe / Nicholson Baker -- Stranger in the village / James Baldwin -- Paying for freedom / Michael Bérubé -- I want a wife / Judy Brady -- Why don't we complain? / William F. Buckley Jr. -- A fable for tomorrow / Rachel Carson -- One side can be wrong / Richard Dawkins, Jerry Coyne -- On keeping a notebook / Joan Didion -- The stunt pilot / Annie Dillard. An American land ethic / N. Scott Momaday. In defense of talk shows / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Z : the movie that changed my life / Louise Erdrich -- The median isn't the message / Stephen Jay Gould -- Speech in Pennsylvania Hall / Angelina Grimké -- The myth of "moderation" in religion / Sam Harris -- How dictionaries are made / S.I. Hayakawa -- Daddy's philosophy / Jim Hightower -- How it feels to be colored me / Zora Neale Hurston -- What I did to Morris Udall / Molly Ivins -- The Declaration of Independence / Thomas Jefferson -- On the death of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. / Robert F. Kennedy -- Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King Jr. -- No name woman / Maxine Hong Kingston -- The human cost of an illiterate society / Jonathan Kozol -- Time lines / Lewis Lapham -- First inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- The Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln -- Atonement / Bret Lott -- Bodies in motion and at rest / Thomas Lynch -- A homemade education / Malcolm X -- An American land ethic / N. Scott Momaday. College pressures / William Zinsser. On 9/11, innocence was lost once again / Leonard Pitts -- Why boys don't play with dolls / Katha Pollitt -- A time for choosing / Ronald Reagan -- "Blaxicans" and other reinvented Americans / Richard Rodriguez -- The unpatriotic academy / Richard Rorty -- Abortion in India / Salman Rushdie -- Letter to President Pierce / Chief Seattle -- Me talk pretty one day / David Sedaris -- Declaration of sentiments and resolutions / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Black men and public space / Brent Staples -- A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- Mother tongue / Amy Tan -- Conversational styles / Deborah Tannen -- Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau -- University days / James Thurber -- In search of our mothers' gardens / Alice Walker -- Listening / Eudora Welty -- Once more to the lake / E.B. White -- Virtues versus values / George Will -- In search of a room of one's own / Virginia Woolf -- College pressures / William Zinsser.
Summary:
A small and inexpensive reader that includes the most widely taught essays--along with some pieces that have never before been anthologized in a composition reader.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.