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  • The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation
  • Written by author Stephen Prothero
  • Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 1/8/2013
  • Bestselling author Stephen Prothero addresses the question of "Whose America is this," by exploring American political discourse and the significant texts that make up the living history of the American people. American politics is broken because we ha
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Introduction 1

Genesis

The Exodus Story 18

"A Model of Christian Charity" (1630) John Winthrop 34

Common Sense (1776) Thomas Paine 52

The Declaration of Independence (1776) 73

The Blue-Back Speller (1783-) Noah Webster 98

Law

The Constitution (1787) 108

Brown v. Board of Education (1954) 129

Roe v. Wade (1973) 146

Chronicles

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) Harriet Beecher Stowe 162

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) Mark Twain 181

Atlas Shrugged (1957) Ayn Rand 199

Psalms

"The Star-Spangled Banner" (1814) Francis Scott Key 214

"God Bless America" (1938) Irving Berlin 226

"This Land Is Your Land" (1940) Woody Guthrie 236

Proverbs

"Remember that time is money" (1748) Benjamin Franklin 244

"God helps those who help themselves" (1758) Benjamin Franklin 246

"Give me liberty or give me death" (1775) Patrick Henry 248

"Remember the ladies" (1776) Abigail Adams 250

"Ain't I a woman?" (1851) Sojourner Truth 252

"With malice toward none, with charity for all" (1865) Abraham Lincoln 254

"I will fight no more forever" (1877) Chief Joseph 256

"The business of America is business" (1925) Calvin Coolidge 258

"I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people" (1932) Franklin Delano Roosevelt 260

"Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country" (1961) John F Kennedy 262

"evil empire" (1983) Ronald Reagan 264

Prophets

"Civil Disobedience" (1849) Henry David Thoreau 268

Farewell Address (1961) Dwight Eisenhower 284

"I Have a Dream" (1963) Martin Luther King Jr. 294

The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) Malcolm X 308

Lamentations

Gettysburg Address (1863) Abraham Lincoln 330

Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1982) Maya Lin 346

Gospels

First Inaugural Address (1801) Thomas Jefferson 358

First Inaugural Address (1933) Franklin Delano Roosevelt 372

"The Speech" (1964) Ronald Reagan 389

Acts

The Pledge of Allegiance (1892,1954) 408

Epistles

Farewell Address (1796) George Washington 420

"Letter to the Danbury Baptists" (1802) Thomas Jefferson 452

"Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963) Martin Luther King Jr. 462

Epilogue 483

Acknowledgments 490

Notes 491

Credits 517

Index 519


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