Contributor
Lemann, Nicholas, editor.
ImprintNew York : Library of America, [2020]
Imprint2020
Descriptionxx, 279 pages ; 21 cm
Note:"Essential writings from The Federalist to Citizens united."--Dust jacket.
Note:Includes some primary source material.
Note:Introduction / by Nicholas Lemann -- Question 1. Citizenship: Who Are "We The People"? -- George Washington to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island -- Frederick Douglass: from What to the Slave is the 4th of July? -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Solitude of Self -- Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech in the Senate on Immigration -- Randolph S. Bourne: Trans-National America -- Question 2. Equality: How Can It Be Achieved? -- Horace Mann: from Twelfth Annual Report to the Massachusetts Board of Education -- Abraham Lincoln: Speech to the 166th Ohio Regiment -- Jane Addams: from the Subtle Problems of Charity -- W.E.B. Du Bois: from Black Reconstruction -- Question 3. A More Perfect Union: What Is The Government For? -- James Madison: The Federalist No. 51 -- John Marshall: from Opinion for the Court in McCulloch v. Maryland -- Alexis de Tocqueville: from Democracy in America -- Franklin D. Roosevelt: Address to the Commonwealth Club of California -- Paul Nitze et al.: from NSC-68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security -- Question 4. The Power of Money: How to Control It? Andrew Jackson: from Veto of the Bank Charter -- Carl Schurz: from Address on Civil Service Reform -- Theodore Roosevelt: The New Nationalism -- John Paul Stevens: from Dissent in CItizens United v. Federal Election Commission -- Question 5. Protest: Can We Disobey the Law? -- Henry David Thoreau: from Civil Disobedience -- Martin Luther King, Jr.: from Birmingham Jail -- Hannah Arendt: from Civil Disobedience.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-279).
Note:Bestselling author Nicholas Lemann presents key writings on five crucial questions confronting American democracy today.
