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"Anchored by an introduction by Jon Meacham, this concise collection of essays, letters, and poems from one of this country's most eminent literary voices sheds much-needed historical context on the state of the nation and offers a ray of hope for the future of our society; for "as lo...
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Harper,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
"Anchored by an introduction by Jon Meacham, this concise collection of essays, letters, and poems from one of this country's most eminent literary voices sheds much-needed historical context on the state of the nation and offers a ray of hope for the future of our society; for "as long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman...the scene is not desolate.""-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxxii, 203 pages ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780062905437 (hardback) : 0062905430 (hardback) 9780062912060 (large print) 0062912062 (large print) |
| Index Number: | E169 |
| CLC: | I712.65 |
| Call Number: | I712.65/W583-3 |
| Contents: | Introduction by Jon Meacham -- High ambiguity -- Dissenting supreme court justice -- Statement of the foreign policy of one citizen of the United States (poem) -- Down with cake (poem) -- Controlled opinion -- Freedom of the air (and the right to silence ...) -- Political beneficiaries -- Now ... the judiciary -- I say to you, cheerio (poem) -- Standards of journalism -- Total moral resistance -- Freedom -- Intimations -- Treason, defined (when congress delays an issue) -- Crackpots -- The meaning of democracy -- Definition of fascism -- Preface to The wild flag -- No fooling -- Bill of human rights -- Right to work -- International justice system -- Pearl Harbour investigation (poem) -- Instructions to a delegate -- Spy system -- (The importance of) many newspaper owners -- Love among the foreign offices (poem) -- Dwindling ownership of the press -- Herald Tribune ("Hollywood ten" letters) -- Loyalty -- Spy (poem) -- Temple of democracy -- Death of the Sun -- The thud of ideas -- Not conforming to facts -- Murder of La prensa -- Discredit of others -- The ABC of security (poem) -- FCC background noise -- One hour to think -- Bedfellows -- Khrushchev and I (a study in similarities) -- Unity -- Burdens of high office (poem) -- Freedom of choice (Letter to the Weekly packet) -- Democracy is destructible (Letter to the Bangor daily news) -- Margaret Chase Smith (Letter to the senator) -- Carnegie commission on educational television (letter to Stephen White) -- Press must be free (Letter to the Bangor daily news) -- On hope (letter to Mr. Nadeau) -- Don't bet on it (letter to the Bangor daily news) -- The Xerox letters (letter to the editor of the Ellsworth American, and follow-up) -- Reverses of fortune -- Credits -- Index. |