American Voices, Volume 2

Eighteen full and lengthy selections from Margaret Leech, Helen Hunt Jackson, Edward Bellamy, Frederick Jackson Turner, Andy Adams, Jane Addams, Lincoln Steffens, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, John Dos Passos, Ruth McKenney, John Steinbeck, Henry Roth, Ralph Ellison, the Port Huron Statement, the Walker Report, and Greil Marcus.

Margaret Leech, Arrival of a Westerner (1941) 1

Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor (1881) 17

Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888) 33

Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893) 53

Andy Adams, The Log of a Cowboy (1903) 77

Jane Addams, A Modern Lear (1912) 91

Lincoln Steffens, Philadelphia: Corrupt and Contented (1904) 105

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall (1905) 123

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1906) 155

Sinclair Lewis, Main Street (1920) 191

John Dos Passos, U.S.A. (1937) 215

Ruth McKenney, Industrial Valley (1939) 241

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939) 257

Henry Roth, Call It Sleep (1934) 301

Ralph Ellison, A Blacks Education (1947) 327

Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement (1962) 347

Daniel Walker, The Walker Report (1968) 369

Greil Marcus, Elvis: Presliad (1976) 423

The late Robert D. Marcus was Professor of History at SUNY, Brockport, from 1983-2000. Eighteen full and lengthy selections from Margaret Leech, Helen Hunt Jackson, Edward Bellamy, Frederick Jackson Turner, Andy Adams, Jane Addams, Lincoln Steffens, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, John Dos Passos, Ruth McKenney, John Steinbeck, Henry Roth, Ralph Ellison, the Port Huron Statement, the Walker Report, and Greil Marcus.