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historical documents that Caroline Kennedy has chosen for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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