Letter To The Americans
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Letter To The Americans
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Author : Jean Cocteau
language : en
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 2022-06-07
Letter To The Americans written by Jean Cocteau and has been published by New Directions Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-07 with Literary Collections categories.
Like Alexis de Tocqueville a century earlier, Jean Cocteau offers a powerful reminder to Americans of their own potential—and issues In 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began composing on the plane ride home this essay filled with the vivid impressions of his trip. With his unmistakable prose and graceful wit, he compares and contrasts French and American culture: the different values they place on art, literature, liberty, psychology, and dreams. Cocteau sees the incredibly buoyant hopes in America’s promise, while at the same time warning of the many ills that the nation will have to confront—its hypocrisy, sexism, racism, and hegemonic aspirations—in order to realize this potential. Never before translated into English, Letter to the Americans remains as timely and urgent as when it was first published in France over seventy years ago.
Letters To America
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Author : Tom Blair
language : en
Publisher: Skyhorse
Release Date : 2015-11-10
Letters To America written by Tom Blair and has been published by Skyhorse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-10 with Political Science categories.
Letters to America was written to energize Americans at a time of economic stress and self-doubt. By reading of the sacrifices the previous American generations – that often endured everyday hardships beyond the comprehension of those of us with running water – challenges confronting individual modern Americans pale in comparison. Starvation and hardship was a given for the early settlers, and yet somehow they persevered and through the fruits of their labors and the tenacity of subsequent immigrants and their descendants, the United States of America grew and flourished. Do we have the work ethic and perseverance today of our forefathers? Do modern Americans even know what true suffering is? Tom Blair believes that Americans can come together to solve this country’s problems, but they will need to be able to sacrifice and work like those who have come before us. A blending of Forrest Gump, Roots and a Profiles in Courage populated by characters from the country’s past. Letters to America is a compilation of twelve letters, each a chapter told in first person, by fictional Americans about their everyday lives. The voices are entirely distinct—men, women, and children; white, black, Native American, Jewish—spanning four centuries, from early American settlers in Jamestown in the 1620s to modern day corporate lunches in mid-town Manhattan. Yet the stories are loosely linked by subtle resonances; and the letters have a cumulative effect that is both humbling and deeply affecting, filled with hope for a future that can be as inspirational as our past.
A Letter To Americans
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Author : Jean Cocteau
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
A Letter To Americans written by Jean Cocteau and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with National characteristics, American categories.
Posterity
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Author : Dorie McCullough Lawson
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2004-04-13
Posterity written by Dorie McCullough Lawson and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-13 with Literary Collections categories.
An elegantly designed, beautifully composed volume of personal letters from famous American men and women that celebrates the American Experience and illuminates the rich history of some of America’s most storied families. Posterity is at once an epistolary chronicle of America and a fascinating glimpse into the hearts and minds of some of history’s most admired figures and storied families. Spanning more than three centuries, these letters contain enduring lessons—in life, love, character and compassion—that will surprise and enlighten. Included here are letters from Thomas Jefferson to his daughter, warning her of the evils of debt; General Patton on D-Day to his son, a cadet at West Point, about what it means to be a good soldier; W.E.B. Du Bois to his daughter about character beneath the color of skin; Oscar Hammerstein about why, after all his success, he doesn’t stop working; Woody Guthrie, writing from a New Jersey asylum, to nine-year-old Arlo about universal human frailty; Eleanor Roosevelt chastising her grown son for his Christmas plans; and Groucho Marx as a dog to his twenty-five-year-old son. Here are renowned Americans in their own words and in their own times, seen as they were seen by their children. Here are our great Americans as mothers and fathers.
A Letter To Americans
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Author : Max Eastman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
A Letter To Americans written by Max Eastman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with Lend-lease operations (1941-1945) categories.
Letters Of A Nation
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Author : Andrew Carroll
language : en
Publisher: Broadway
Release Date : 1998-12-31
Letters Of A Nation written by Andrew Carroll and has been published by Broadway this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-12-31 with History categories.
Spanning 350 years of American history and culture, a collection of more than two hundred letters, many never before published, reveals the personalities and feelings of Americans great and small, from Amelia Earhart to Elvis Presley to Malcolm X. Reprint.
A Letter To America
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Author : David L. Boren
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2012-09-14
A Letter To America written by David L. Boren and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-14 with Political Science categories.
A powerful wake-up call to all Americans With only 6 percent of the world’s population, how long will the United States remain a global superpower? The answer, David Boren tells us in A Letter to America, depends on asking ourselves tough questions. A powerful wake-up call to Americans, A Letter to America, forces us to take a bold, objective look at ourselves. In A Letter to America, Boren explains with unsparing clarity why the country is at a crossroads and why decisive action is urgently needed and offers us an ambitious, hopeful plan. What the country needs, Boren asserts, are major reforms to restore the ability of our political system to act responsibly. By relying on our shared values, we can replace cynicism with hope and strengthen our determination to build a better future. We must fashion a post–Cold War foreign policy that fits twenty-first-century realities—including multiple contending superpowers. We must adopt campaign finance reform that curbs the influence of special interests and restores political power to the voters. Universal health care coverage, budget deficit reduction, affordable higher education, and a more progressive tax structure will strengthen the middle class. Boren also describes how we can renew our emphasis on quality primary and secondary education, revitalize our spirit of community, and promote volunteerism. He urges the teaching of more American history and government, for without educated citizens our system cannot function and our rights will not be preserved. Unless we understand how we became great, we will not remain great. The plan Boren puts forward is optimistic and challenges Americans to look into the future, decide what we want to be and where we want to go, and then implement the policies and actions we need to take us there.
A Letter To The American People
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Author : Lawrence Hunt
language : en
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's sons
Release Date : 1941
A Letter To The American People written by Lawrence Hunt and has been published by New York : G.P. Putnam's sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with United States categories.
Letters From Black America
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Author : Pamela Newkirk
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2011-01-11
Letters From Black America written by Pamela Newkirk and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-11 with Literary Collections categories.
The first-ever narrative history of African Americans told through their own letters Letters from Black America fills a literary and historical void by presenting the spectrum of African American experience in the most intimate way possible—through the heartfelt correspondence of those who lived through monumental changes and pivotal events, from the American Revolution to the war in Iraq, from slavery to the election of Obama.
Best Letters From Asian Americans In The Arts
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Author : Christopher K. Ho
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-02-24
Best Letters From Asian Americans In The Arts written by Christopher K. Ho and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-24 with Asian American artists categories.
This collection of seventy-three letters written in 2020 captures an unprecedented moment in politics and society through the experiences of Asian-American artists, curators, educators, art historians, editors, writers, and designers. The form of the letter offers readers intimate insights into the complexities of Asian American experiences, moving beyond the model-minority myth. Chronicling everyday lives, dreams, rage, family histories, and cultural politics, these letters ignite new ways of being, and modes of creating, at a moment of racial reckoning.