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

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Flag -- Star-spangled banner/ Francis Scott Key and John Stafford Smith, 1814 -- Pledge of allegiance, 1892 -- Battle cry of freedom George Frederick Root,c 1861 -- Flag goes by Henry Holcomb Bennett, c 1900 -- You're a grand old flag George M Cohan, 1906 -- West Virginia State board of education v Barnette, 319 US 624 (1943) -- Flags Gwendolyn Brooks, 1944 -- Mike Christian story John McCain, 1971 -- Texas v Johnson, 491 US 397 (1989) -- US blues Grateful Dead, 1973 -- God bless the USA Lee Greenwood, 1984 -- Visions Of America -- Model of Christian charity/ John Winthrop, 1630 -- Farewell address, September 19, 1796 George Washington -- First inaugural address, March 4, 1801 Thomas Jefferson -- Dedication of the Bunker Hill monument, June 17, 1825 Daniel Webster -- Ship of state Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1849 -- Strenuous life, April 10, 1899 Theodore Roosevelt -- Let America be America Again Langston Hughes, 1936 -- Second inaugural address, January 20, 1937 Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Inaugural address, January 20, 1961 John F Kennedy -- Times they are a-changin' / Bob Dylan, c1963 -- First words spoken by a man on the moon, July 20, 1969 -- Farewell address, January 11, 1989 Ronald Reagan -- Portraits Of Americans -- Yankee Doodle, 1755 -- Letters from an American farmer J Hector St John de Crevecoeur, 1782 -- Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835 -- Democracy Henry Adams, 1880 -- Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde, 1891 -- Dangers of the dress suit in politics George Washington Plunkitt, 1905 -- Take me out to the ball game Albert Von Tilzer and Jack Norworth, 1908 -- On being an American H L Mencken, 1922 -- As regards patriotism Mark Twain, c 1900 -- I like Americans Edna St Vincent Millay, 1924 -- Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 -- American names Stephen Vincent Benet, 1927 -- 42nd parallel John Dos Passos, 1930 -- You're the top Cole Porter, 1934 -- Story of a novel Thomas Wolfe, 1936 -- Hollywood Truman Capote, 1950 -- Last gentleman Walker Percy, 1966 -- How to tame a wild tongue Gloria Anzaldua, 1987 -- Country and a conundrum Anna Quindlen, 2002 -- Rule Of Law -- Constitution of the United States, 1787 -- Constitutional convention, speech at the conclusion of it deliberations, September 17, 1787 Benjamin Franklin -- Marbury v Madison, 5 US 137 (1803) -- Civil disobedience Henry David Thoreau, 1849 -- First inaugural address, March 4, 1861 Abraham Lincoln -- United States of America v Susan B Anthony, 1873 -- To kill a mockingbird Harper Lee, 1960 -- Letter from Birmingham City jail, April 16, 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr -- Special message to the congress: the American promise, March 15, 1965 Lyndon B Johnson -- Duncan v Louisiana, 391 US 145 (1968) -- Opening statement to the House judiciary committee, proceedings on impeachment of Richard Nixon, July 25, 1974 Barbara Jordan -- Remarks on taking the oath of office, August 9, 1974 Gerald R Ford -- Bush v Gore, 531 US 98 (2000) --

Freedom -- Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson, 1776 -- But, Mister Adams (From the Broadway musical 1776) / Sherman Edwards, 1964 -- America Samuel Francis Smith, 1832 -- If I had a country, I should be a patriot, September 24, 1847 Frederick Douglass -- Letter to President Lincoln, August 25, 1864 Annie Davis -- Sympathy Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1893 -- Freedom E B White, July 1940 -- As freedom is a breakfast food E E Cumming, 1940 -- State of the Union address, January 6, 1941 Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Address at "I am an American" day, Central park, New York, May 21, 1944 Judge Learned Hand -- I've got the light of freedom Pete Seeger -- Address to students, Moscow State University, May 31, 1988 Ronald Reagan -- Freedom Of Speech And Of The Press -- Statement at trial of John Peter Zenger, 1735 Andrew Hamilton -- Abrams v US., 250 616 (1919) -- Whitney v California, 274 US 357 (1927) -- Remarks to the Senate in support of a Declaration of conscience, June 1, 1950 Margaret Chase Smith -- New York Times Co v Sullivan, 376 US 254 (1964) -- Freedom Of Religion -- Amazing Grace John Newton, 1779, 1829 (last stanza) -- Speech against missionaries; efforts to baptize members of the Seneca tribe, 1805 Chief Red Jacket -- Speech to the greater Houston ministerial association, September 12, 1960 John F Kennedy -- Engel v Vitale, 370 US 421 (1962) -- Zelman v Simmons-Harris, 122 S Ct 2460 (2002) -- Right To Be Let Alone -- Statement against the Writs of assistance, Boston, 1761 James Otis -- Olmstead v US, 277 438 (1928) -- Planned parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v Casey, 505 US 833 (1992) -- Equality -- Letter to John Adam, March 31, 1776 Abigail Adams -- Letter to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776 John Adams -- Declaration of sentiments and resolutions Seneca Falls convention, 1848 -- Ain't I a woman?, May 1851 Sojourner Truth -- Lift every voice and sing, 1900 James Weldon Johnson -- Speech in congress on women's rights and wartime service, January 10, 1918 Jeannette Rankin -- Incident Countee Cullen, 1925 -- Merry-go-round Langston Hughes, 1942 -- Can a woman ever be president of the United States? / Eleanor Roosevelt, 1935 -- Brown v Board of eduction, 347 US 483 (1954) -- Chicago defender sends a man to Little Rock, Fall 1957 Gwendolyn Brooks 1960 -- Televised address to the nation, June 11, 1963 John F Kennedy -- Address at the march on Washington, August 28, 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr -- Feminine mystique, 1963 Betty Friedan -- Special plight and the role of the black woman, May 7, 1971 Fannie Lou Hamer -- Frontiero v Richardson, 411 US 677 (1973) -- Statement on Americans with disabilities act, May 9, 1989 Edward M Kennedy -- Address to the fourth UN world conference on women, Beijing, China, September 5, 1993 Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Remarks on affirmative action, July 19, 1995 William Jefferson Clinton -- Baker v State, 170 Vt 194 (1999) -- Individual -- Simple gifts Joseph Brackett, 1848 -- Self-reliance, 1841 Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Walden, 1854 Henry David Thoreau -- Songs of the sacred mysteries Sioux, 1869 -- Sorrow songs (from the Souls of black folk) / W E B Du Bois, 1903 -- Road not taken Robert Frost, 1916 -- Invisible man Ralph Ellison, 1947 -- Address upon receiving the Nobel Prize, December 10, 1950 William Faulkner -- Letter to the House committee on un-American activities, and reply (from Scoundrel Time), 1952 Lillian Hellman -- Day of affirmation, Cape Town University, June 6, 1966 Robert F Kennedy -- Drum major instinct, February 4, 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr -- In search of our mother's gardens Alice Walker, 1974 --

War And Peace -- Speech after defeat by the Virginia militia, 1774 Chief Logan -- Speech to the second Virginia convention, March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry -- Common sense, February 14, 1776 Thomas Paine -- Paul Revere's ride Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1863 -- Monroe doctrine, 1823 -- Battle hymn of the Republic Julia Ward Howe, 1861 -- Shiloh, a requiem Herman Melville, April 1862 -- Final emancipation proclamation, January 1, 1863 Abraham Lincoln -- Gettysburg address, November 19, 1863 Abraham Lincoln -- Second inaugural address, March 4, 1865 Abraham Lincoln -- Memoirs Ulysses S Grant, 1885-1886 -- Surrender to the U S army, 1877 Chief Joseph -- Marines' song, 1891 -- Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind Stephen Crane, 1899 -- Caisson song Edmund L Gruber, 1907 -- War message to congress, April 2, 1917 Woodrow Wilson -- Over there George M Cohan, 1917 -- Unknown soldier Billy Rose -- September 1, 1939 W H Auden, 1941 -- War message to congress, December 8, 1941 Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Gift outright Robert Frost, 1942 -- Martial Cadenza Wallace Stevens, 1954 -- Great crusade, June 6, 1944 Dwight D Eisenhower -- On the atomic bomb, 1945 H Robert Oppenheimer -- Fateful decision, 1948 Albert Einstein -- Address to the nation on Korea, April 11, 1951 Harry S Truman -- Farewell address, January 17, 1961 Dwight D Eisenhower -- Blowin' in the wind Bob Dylan, 1962 -- Commencement address at American University, June 10, 1963 John F Kennedy -- Vietnam veterans against the war John Kerry, 1971 -- Born in the USA Bruce Springsteen, 1984 -- On the rainy river (from the Things they carried), 1990 Tim O'Brien -- Remarks upon returning from the people's Republic of China, February 28, 1972 Richard M Nixon -- Remarks at Michigan State University, May 5, 1995 William Jefferson Clinton -- Address on terrorism before a Joint meeting of congress, September 20, 2001 George W Bush -- Address upon receiving the Nobel Prize, December 10, 2002 Jimmy Carter -- Work, Opportunity, And Invention -- New Colossus Emma Lazarus, 1883 -- Explusion of he immigrants, c1884 Huang Zunxian -- I hear America singing Walt Whitman, 1891 -- I've been working on the railroad -- Letter to Octave Chanute, May 13, 1900 Wilbur Wright -- Speech at the convention of the National American woman suffrage association, July 22, 1905 Florence Kelley -- Jungle Upton Sinclair, 1906 -- Ellis Island Henry James, 1907 -- Barrio boy, 1971 Ernesto Galarza -- My life and owrk, 1922 Henry Ford -- They won't think, 1921 Thomas Alva Edison -- Happy days are here again, / Milton Ager and Jack Yellen, 1929 -- Brother, can you spare a dime? / E Y Harburg and Jay Gorney, 1932 -- First inaugural address, March 4, 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- West Coast Hotel Co v Parrish, 300 US 379 (1937) -- Grapes of wrath John Steinbeck, 1939 -- Death of a salesman, 1949 Arthur Miller -- Kitchen debate, Moscow, 1959 Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev -- Ellis Island interview, March 22, 1991 Manny Steen -- King Leer, 1950 Groucho Marx -- Coal miner's daughter Loretta Lynn, 1970 -- Choosing a dream: Italians in Hell's kitchen. 1971 Mario Puzo -- Recapturing America's moral vision, University of Kansas, March 18, 1968 Robert F Kennedy -- Address to the Commonwealth club of San Francisco, November 9, 1984 Cesar Chavez -- My hometown/ Bruce Springsteen, 1984 -- POPism, 1975 Andy Warhol -- Speech to the Democratic convention, August 12, 1980 Edward M Kennedy -- Homeless children speak, 1986 David Bright -- Speech at the Republican convention, August 18, 1988 George Bush -- Joy luck club Amy Tan, 1989 -- Education of an American, September 21, 2001 Arnold Schwarzenegger -- Capitalizing on the "cognitive niche", 1999 Bill Gates -- Our Land -- God bless America Irving Berlin, 1938 -- Thanksgivings Iroquois, 1891 -- Twelfth song of the thunder Navajo, 1887 -- Oh! Susanna Stephen Foster, 1848 -- Old cotton fields at home Huddie Ledbetter, 1936 -- Light in August William Faulkner, 1932 -- Let us now praise famous men James Agee, 1941 -- Florida Elizabeth Bishop, 1946 -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain, 1884 -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening Robert Frost, 1923 -- Moby-Dick Herman Melville, 1851 -- Sidewalks of New York James W Blake and Charles B Lawlor, 1894 -- New York, New York Fred Ebb and John Kander, 1977 -- Jazz Toni Morrison, 1992 -- Chicago Carl Sandburg, 1916 -- Significance of the frontier in American history, 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner -- Ballad of Davy Crockett George Bruns and Tom Blackburn, 1954 -- O Pioneers! / Willa Cather, 1913 -- Response to the breakup of their reservation, 1903 Northern Utes -- Home on the range David Guion, 1930 -- Old Chisholm trail, c1880 -- Mud below Annie Proulx, 1999 -- Oklahoma Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, 1943 -- I left my heart in San Fransciso George C Cory, Jr and Douglass Cross, 1954 -- Sunset Jack Kerouac, 1960 -- Surfin' USA Chuck Berry and Brian Wilson, 1963 -- Los Angele notebook Joan Didion, 1966 -- Big yellow taxi Joni Mitchell, 1970 -- Wilderness letter Wallace Stegner, 1960 -- America Paul Simon, 1968 -- America, the beautiful Katharine Lee Bates. 1893 -- Land is your land Woody Guthrie, 1940 -- Permissions and photo credits -- Index.

From Publishers Weekly: The rich and sometimes discordant strains of American self-scrutiny fill this wide-ranging anthology. Kennedy (The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) arranges the more than 200 selections according to themes like "The Flag," "Freedom of Speech," "Work, Opportunity and Invention" and "The Individual," and devotes equal space to the official, the devotional and the oppositional. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are reprinted in full, along with a large selection of presidential inaugurals and farewells and excerpts from landmark Supreme Court decisions. Popular songs include "Yankee Doodle," "This Land Is Your Land" and "Surfin' USA." Poems and fiction from such luminaries as Whitman, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Stephen Crane, Alice Walker and Annie Proulx explore the variegated textures of American life. The dissident voices of Thoreau, Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass hold America to account for its injustice; H.L. Mencken castigates it as "a commonwealth of third-rate men"; and Oscar Wilde raises a sardonic eyebrow at the whole dubious enterprise. Combining traditional touchstones of Americanism with many insightful surprises, Kennedy's thoughtful arrangement of works of historical significance and literary quality will reward both casual browsers and those conducting a more focused investigation of the nation's patriotic literature.

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