American Patriotic Prose, with Notes and Biographies

xv, 389 pp. Contributors include Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; Captain John Smith; Benjamin Franklin; John Adams; Patrick Henry; Thomas Paine; Daniel Webster; Thomas Jefferson; Samuel Adams; George Washington; Alexander Hamilton; James Monroe; John Quincy Adams; Henry Clay; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Abraham Lincoln; Walt Whitman; James A. Garfield; William H. Seward; Theodore Roosevelt; and more.