Title: American Literacy
Subtitle: fifty books that define our culture and ourselves
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.
Subjects: Books and reading, Authors and readers, Civilization, Bibliography, Literature and society, United states, civilization, bibliography
Places: United States