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Also by Caroline Kennedy:

Rose Kennedy's Family Album, October 2013
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Poems To Learn By Heart, April 2013
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Listening In, October 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Jacqueline Kennedy, September 2011
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She Walks In Beauty, April 2011
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A Family Christmas, November 2007
Hardcover
A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children, September 2005
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The Best-Loved Poems Of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, September 2005
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A Patriot's Handbook, April 2005
Paperback
Profiles in Courage for Our Time, May 2003
Trade Size
In Our Defense, March 1992
Paperback

A Patriot's Handbook
Caroline Kennedy

Songs, Poems, Stories, And Speeches Celebrating The Land We Love

Hyperion
April 2005
On Sale: April 13, 2005
688 pages
ISBN: 1401307671
EAN: 9781401307677
Paperback
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Non-Fiction

Now available in paperback, the New York Times bestseller.

When John F. Kennedy called America "the land we love" more than 42 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 those things and more.

The poems, songs, speeches, letters, and historical documents that Caroline Kennedy has chosen for this remarkable collection remind us of the foundations on which America was built. But they also ask us to examine what it truly means to be a "patriot," even if our assumptions are challenged along the way, because it is only by doing so that America can "truly be our own."

Voices as diverse as the nation itself:

--Thomas Jefferson
--Cole Porter
--Chief Red Jacket
--Amy Tan
--Betty Friedan
--Albert Einstein
--George W. Bush
--Loretta Lynn
--John F. Kennedy
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
--Bob Dylan
--Cesar Chavez
--Toni Morrison
--Groucho Marx
--and many more

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