The American Conscience: A nation arguing with itself

The writers who held America to its own promises — Thoreau, Douglass, Du Bois, and the long tradition of patriotic dissent.

In this collection

• Vale Diabole
• Poor Susan Moans, Poor Susan Groans;
• At Christmas Time
• Cholula
• The Damnable Ideal
• The Conquest of Plassans
• Beyond Debate
• Ego
• Those Bill-Boards
• My Lady Ludlow
• To the Judge
• Lord Heygate
• A Womam of Thirty
• American Literary Centers
• President Lincoln's Proclamation of Freedom
• Reginald
• The Traveller
• Coronation
• The Foreign Drunk
• I Say Goodbye to Other Subjects
• The Model of Sorrows
• Umm Saad
• The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids
• The Man who Kept his Form
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