Finding Our Words: Words That Made America - Tracy Lee Simmons

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nFINDING OUR WORDS: Words That Made America is a collection of some of the most inspiring words spoken by American leaders since the nation's founding. n nIt is intended for all ages: for advanced readers to enjoy in leisure learning, or aloud in groups with all levels-even beginning readers. It may be used exclusively or in conjunction with other works for the study of language arts, U.S. history, civics, statesmanship, and elocution.n nWe give here a few of the standards, but we also bring back to light some forgotten words forgotten undeservedly. Together they form a remarkable chronicle of selfless devotion that could have emerged only from a great nation. Any yet, how many of our ancestors, even the perceptive and perspicacious ones, could have foreseen that American culture, verbally and otherwise, would one day devolve so depressingly and crassly that the day would arrive when, say, their grandchildren in high school would be unable to read what they themselves might have read for pleasure in elementary school?n nCommerce with these words offers us one path back to citizenship, decency, and good sense. The foundation of all learning, all communication, and all thought is words. Any honest struggle to use words well sets us all on a path not only to the intelligent life but to the decorous life, once graced with dignity and elan. -Tracy Lee Simmonsn nThe loss can be summed up in one sentence: We have lost our words. We no longer read the greatest spoken and written words of all time, and so we have lost both the general use and the understanding of words that our ancestors, both ancient and more recent, lived by. More critically, however, in losing those words, we have lost what those words have represented.n nYet it is exhilarating to realize how much one can learn, how much can quietly change within one's self and within one's family, simply by reading these words, slowly, and making them one's own. -Allison Ellisn nMount Titano Media publishes single works and collections of the greatest spoken and written words of all time in the fields of history, literature, poetry, philosophy, and politics for the benefit of families, schools, colleges, universities, and independent lovers of learning and culture.n