Contents for Essays, Second Edition
Selections in bold are new to the Second Edition.
- Maya Angelou, Graduation
- Anne Applebaum, The Torture Myth
- James Baldwin, Stranger in the Village
- Nicholson Baker, Recipe
- Michael Bérubé, Paying for Freedom
- Judy Brady, I Want a Wife
- William F. Buckley, Why Don’t We Complain?
- Rachel Carson, A Fable for Tomorrow
- Richard Dawkins and Jerry Coyne, One Side Can Be Wrong
- Joan Didion, On Keeping a Notebook
- Annie Dillard, The Stunt Pilot
- Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read
- Barbara Ehrenreich, In Defense of Talk Shows
- Louise Erdrich, Z:The Movie That Changed My Life
- Stephen Jay Gould, The Median Isn’t the Message
- Angelina Grimké, Speech in Pennsylvania Hall
- Sam Harris, The Myth of “Moderation” in Religion
- S. I. Hayakawa, How Dictionaries Are Made
- Jim Hightower, Daddy’s Philosophy
- Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels To Be Colored Me
- Molly Ivins, What I Did to Morris Udall
- Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence
- Robert Kennedy, On the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
- Maxine Hong Kingston, No Name Woman
- Jonathan Kozol, The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society
- Lewis Lapham, Time Lines
- Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address
- The Gettysburg Address
- Bret Lott, Atonement
- Thomas Lynch, Bodies in Motion and at Rest
- Malcolm X, A Homemade Education
- N. Scott Momaday, An American Land Ethic
- George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant
- Leonard Pitts, On 9/11:Innocence Was Lost Once Again
- Katha Pollitt, Why Boys Don’t Play with Dolls
- Ronald Reagan, A Time for Choosing
- Richard Rodriguez, “Blaxicans” and Other Reinvented Americans
- Richard Rorty, The Unpatriotic Academy
- Salman Rushdie, Abortion in India
- Chief Seattle, Letter to President Pierce
- David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declarations of Sentiments and Resolutions
- Brent Staples, Black Men and Public Space
- Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
- Amy Tan, Mother Tongue
- Deborah Tannen, Conversational Styles
- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
- James Thurber, University Days
- Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens
- Eudora Welty, Listening
- E. B. White, Once More to the Lake
- George Will, Virtues Versus Values
- Virginia Woolf, In Search of a Room of One’s Own
- William Zinsser, College Pressures
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