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Freedom & Responsibility

ISBN:

9781943536146

Progress in American society comes through careful analysis of the past, choosing the best path forward by interrogating what has come before. Freedom & Responsibility collects philosophical, political, and personal readings from the past and present that showcase the progress of American society through the themes of taking responsibility for the things that have afforded us the freedoms we enjoy in the USA.

Freedom & Responsibility is designed for a wide range of courses and readers. The many shorter, accessible works can serve students of rhetoric, history, and composition. By providing a broad spectrum of complexity in these anthologized readings, students also have access to higher-order works that address the inherent complexity of American society.

Authors include Susan B. Anthony, Marcus Aurelius, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin, Zora Neale Hurston, Thomas Jefferson, Helen Keller, John F. Kennedy, Winona LaDuke, Abraham Lincoln, Niccolò Machiavelli, Angela Morales, Barack Obama, Richard Rodriguez, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Henry David Thoreau, Sojourner Truth, Mark Twain, Jose Antonio Vargas, Woodrow Wilson, and Mary Wollstonecraft.

$21

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Justus Ballard

Justus Ballard has taught English at a community college since 2004.

Faculty Reviews

"I love the confidence this book gives my students: that they have a purpose and can make a difference in our world."

"The ideas involved are inexhaustible, and (generally) the readings are short enough to trace in their entirety in one class session."

"It's so important to me that my students are assigned some essays that are by, and about, people of color. Freedom & Responsibility specifically chose texts that would hit that mark."