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What document written by a american author embodies the american spirit the most? ?
for example the consitution embodies the fact that americans value freedom and fairness.
so my question is, which one of the classic listed below embodies america the most?
-Tom Paine, Common Sense
-The Declaration of Independence
-Benjamin Franklin, The autobiography
-Lincoln, Selected Speeches
-Emerson, Self Reliance
-Whitman, Leaves of Grass
-Thoreau, Walden
- Emily Dickinson’s Poems
-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Whitman, if I had to choose only one, because his work encapsulates the multi-layered varieties of what it means to be an American in various contexts. The others contain important aspects of the American life, but Whitman seems to come closest to expressing most of them.
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Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds $5.99 “Lives Like Loaded Guns…reads like a fabulous detective story…[Gordon] takes us into undiscovered territory.” –The Washington Post In 1882, Emily Dickinson’s brother, Austin, began an adulterous love affair with the accomplished and ravishing Mabel Todd, setting in motion a series of events that would forever change the lives of the Dickinson family. Award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon t… |
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Martha Graham: A Dancer’s Life $11.56 Martha Graham, the American dancer, teacher, and choreographer, revolutionized the world of modern dance. She possessed a great gift for revealing emotion through dance, expressing beliefs and telling stories in an utterly new way. Newbery Medalist Russell Freedman documents Martha Graham’s life from her birth in 1894 to her final dance performance at the age of seventy-five and continued career a… |
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The Life of Emily Dickinson $18.98 The life of Emily Dickinson, Richard B. Sewall’s monumental biography of the great American poet (1830-1886), wont the National Book Award when it was originally publsihed in two volumes. Now available in the one-volume eidtion, it has been called “by far the best and most complete study of the poet’s life yet to be written, the result of nearly twenty years of work” (The Atlantic).R.W.B. Lewis ha… |
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Emily Dickinson $36 Emily Dickinson |
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Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series Two $3.99 The third in the series of a collection of poems by Emily Dickinson. |
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Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series Three $3.99 The second in the series of a collection of poems by Emily Dickinson. |
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Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series One $3.99 The first in the series of a collection of poems by Emily Dickinson. |