American Voices
American Voices is the third and longest book planned in the Voices of Life series.
Now in process, its publication is anticipated in 2001. American Voices is a series of dramatic fictional dialogues with Americans from colonial times to the present. Americans whose words and acts have helped to form the best of the American heritage, and its declared aspiration, upon the founding of the United States, to securing each individual’s natural rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
(see the planned Table of Contents below as well as link to sample chapter below)
American Voices
Table of Contents
Author’s Preface
Introduction
Part One: The Voice of Fathers & Sons
Chapter One: The First American Lawyer: James Otis
Chapter Two: American Lightening: Benjamin Franklin
Chapter Three: American Prophet: Thomas Jefferson
Chapter Four: American Lawgivers: James Wilson, James Madison
Chapter Five: America’s Father: George Washington
Chapter Six: America’s Son: Andrew Jackson
Part Two: The Voice of Preservation
Chapter Seven: Keeper of the Faith: John Adams
Chapter Eight: The Voice of America: Daniel Webster
Chapter Nine (Part I): The Mistaken American: John Calhoun
Chapter Nine (Part II): American in Defeat: Robert E. Lee
Chapter Ten: American Warrior: Ulysses S. Grant
Chapter Eleven: The Great Preserver: Abraham Lincoln
Part Three: The Adventurer’s Voice
Chapter Twelve: American Explorers: Lewis & Clark
Chapter Thirteen: American Sheriffs: Grover Cleveland & Wyatt Earp
Chapter Fourteen: American Champion: Teddy Roosevelt
Chapter Fifteen: American in Europe: Woodrow Wilson
Chapter Sixteen: American Tragic Hero: Charles Lindbergh
Chapter Seventeen: American Without Fear: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Part Four: The Voices of Women
Chapter Seventeen: The First First Lady: Abigail Adams
Chapter Eighteen: The American Nurse: Clara Barton
Chapter Nineteen: The Votegetter: Susan B. Anthony
Chapter Twenty: The Hostess With the Mostest: Perle Mesta
Chapter Twenty-One: Grace Under Pressure: Jacqueline Kennedy
Part Five: Voices of the Flame
Chapter Twenty-Two: American Poet: Walt Whitman
Chapter Twenty-Three: American Capitalist: Henry Ford
Chapter Twenty-Four: American Socialist: Norman Thomas
Chapter Twenty-Five: American Liberal: Eleanor Roosevelt
Chapter Twenty-Six: American Conservative: Ayn Rand
Chapter Twenty-Seven: American Constitutionalist: George Anastaplo
Chapter Twenty-Eight: American Critics: William F. Buckley & Gore Vidal
Part Six: American Presidents
Chapter Twenty-Nine: JFK: The Voice of the 20th Century
Chapter Thirty: Jimmy Carter: The Voice of the South
Chapter Thirty-One: Ronald Reagan: The Communicator
Part Seven: Voice of The American Dream
Chapter Thirty-Two: American Dreamer: Martin Luther King
Chapter Thirty-Three: American Mystic: Ken Wilber
Epilogue to the Dialogues
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