Man and society
By: Robert M. Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler, editors in chief ; Clifton Fadiman, associate editor.
Contributors: Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902-; Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-
Series: Gateway to the great books -- 6
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Chicago; Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 765
Subjects: Literature -- Collections.
Other titles: Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Notes: Complements Great books of the western world (AC 1 G7 1952); includes only short works.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: value: John Stuart Mill / Childhood and youth (from Autobiography); value: Mark Twain / Learning the river (from Life on the Mississippi); value: La Bruyère / Characters; value: Thomas Carlyle / The hero as king; value: Ralph Waldo Emerson / Thoreau; value: Nathaniel Hawthorne / Sketch of Abraham Lincoln; value: Walt Whitman / Death of Abraham Lincoln; value: Virginia Woolf / The art of biography; value: Xenophon / The march to the sea (from The Persian expedition). The character of Socrates (from Memorabilia); value: William H. Prescott / The land of Montezuma (from The conquest of Mexico); value: Haniel Long / The power within us; value: Pliny the Younger / The eruption of Vesuvius (from Letters); value: Cornelius Tacitus / The life of Gnaeus Julius Agricola; value: François Guizot / Civilization (from History of civilization in Europe; value: Henry Adams / The United States in 1800 (from History of the United States of America); value: John Bagnell Bury / Herodotus; value: Lucian / The way to write history; value: The English Bill of Rights; value: Declaration of the rights of man and of the citizen; value: The Virginia declaration of rights; value: The declaration of independence; value: Charter of the United Nations; value: Universal declaration of human rights; value: Thomas Paine / A call to patriots - December 23, 1776 (from The crisis); value: George Washington / Circular letter to the governors of all the states on disbanding the army. The farewell address; value: Thomas Jefferson / The Virginia Constitution (from Notes on Virginia). First inaugural address. Biographical sketches; value: Benjamin Franklin / A proposal for promoting useful knowledge among the British plantations in America. Proposals relating to the education of youth in Pennsylvania; value: Jean de Crevecoeur / The making of Americans (from Letters from an American farmer); value: Alexis de Tocqueville / Observations on American life and government (from Democracy in America; value: Henry David Thoreau / Civil disobedience.  A plea for Captain John Brown; value: Abraham Lincoln / Address at Cooper Institute. First inauguaral address. Letter to Horace Greeley. Meditation on the Divine will. The Gettysburg address. Second inaugural address. Last public address.