American literacy
Subtitle: fifty books that define our culture and ourselves
By: J. North Conway.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W. Morrow
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Books and reading -- United States.; Authors and readers -- United States.; Literature and society -- United States.; United States -- Civilization -- Bibliography.
Description: The foundations laid by Thomas Jefferson and Noah Webster; the struggle of Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, and Martin Luther King, Jr.; the continued conviction of Ralph Nader and Daniel Ellsberg; and reflections by Susan B. Anthony and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as a host of others who continue to define what America is all about.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-294) and index.