A PATRIOT'S HANDBOOK Songs, Poems, and Spreeches Gelebrating the Land Wo Love

A PATRIOT'S HANDBOOK Songs, Poems, and Spreeches Gelebrating the Land Wo Love Selected and Introduced by CAROLINE KENNEDY When John F. Kennedy called America the land we love more than forty years ago, he was reminding us of the lofty ideals on which our country was founded. But what are those ideals, and how have Americans defined them? Is America the land of George Washington and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who rallied the country's spirits for unity in wartime, or is it a land of dissent, a land in which Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Martin Luther King Jr. remind us of our duty to protect our most fundamental freedoms? Are we defined by the speeches of Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan, or by the humor of H. L. Mencken and Mark Twain? Caroline Kennedy's answer in A Patriot's Handbook is that we are all of these things and more. In fact, the America you will meet in these pages is one that derives its strength from its diversity, and from the way our variety allows us constantly to reinvent ourselves. We are a country of poets, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Langston Hughes; we are a country of songwriters,