目录 Unit One Colonial Period Key Words Text One The Mayflower Compact Text Two Leah and Rachel, Or, the Two Fruitful Sisters: Virginia and Mary-land Text Three What Is an American? Text Four Poor Richards Almanac Unit Two Revolutionary Period Key Words Text One The Declaration of Independence Text Two The Crisis Text Three The Spirit of Liberty Unit Three The Westward Expansion Key Words Text One Who Is There to Mourn for Logan? Text Two The Significance of the Frontier on the National Character Text Three Self-reliance Text Four Where I Lived and What I Lived for Text Five Woman in the Nineteenth Century Unit Four The Civil War Key Words Text One The Life of Olaudah Equiano Text Two Negro Slavery Text Three Abraham Lincolns First Inaugural Address Unit Five Reconstruction and the Rise of Industrialization Key Words Text One The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today Text Two The American Unit Six World War I Key Words Text One The New Nationalism Text Two Sister Carrie Unit Seven Post-World War I and the Great Depression Key Words Text One The Great Gatsby Text Two A Farewell to Arms Text Three Brother, Can You Spare Me a Dime? Unit Eight World War II Key Words Text One Quarantine Speech Text Two The Indispensable Opposition Unit Nine Post-World War II Key Words Text One Howl Text Two Opinion in the Case of Brown vs. Board of Education of, Topeka Text Three Where Do We Go from Here? Text Four The Feminine Mystique Unit Ten Contemporary Key Words Text One Addresses before the Congress Following the Moon Landing Text Two September 11: Before and After Bibliography Appendix
内容摘要 There is, for example, the whispering campaign, the circulation of anonymous rumors by men whocannot be compelled to prove what they say. They put the utmost strain on our tolerance, and there are fewwho do not rejoice when the anonymous slanderer is caught, exposed, and punished. At a higher levelthere is the moving picture, a most powerful medium for conveying ideas, but a medium which does notpermit debate. A moving picture cannot be answered effectively by another moving picture; in all freecountries there is some censorship of the movies,and there would be more if the producers did notrecognize their limitations by avoiding political controversy.There is then the radio.Here debate isdifficult: it is not easy to make sure that the speaker is being answered in the presence of the sameaudience. Inevitably, there is some regulation of the radio. When we reach the newspaper press, the opportunity for debate is so...
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