Contents
Preface
Introduction xi
MANNERS AND MORALS 1
The First American "Bust": Morton of Merrymount 3
Thomas Morton, Of the Revells of New Canaan 4
William Bradford, Thomas Morton of Merrymount 8
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Maypole of Merry Mount 13
Two Nineteenth-Century Views 20
Walt Whitman, I Sing the Body Electric 20
Anthony Comstock, Free-Love Traps 28
Malcolm Cowley, War in Bohemia 33
Jerry Rubin, Do It! 37
Carl Wittman, A Gay Manifesto 46
Charles Reich, The New Generation 55
MARRIAGE, MOTHERHOOD, AND THE FAMILY 69
Anne Bradstreet, Before the Birth of One of Her
Children 71
The Prologue 72
Margaret Fuller, The Great Lawsuit 74
M. A. Hardaker, The Ethics of Sex 84
Ida H. Harper, Men Versus Women: An Indictment 91
C. E. S. Wood, Marriage 97
Betty Friedan, The Crisis in Woman's Identity 100
Gary Snyder, Passage to More Than India 107
Kate Millett, Theory of Sexual Politics 113
THE MELTING POT 123
Andrew Carnegie, The American People 125
Israel Zangwill, The Melting Pot 130
Randolph S. Bourne, Trans-National America 145
Henry Pratt Fairchild, The Melting Pot Mistake 152
Marya Mannes, McCarran Act 158
LeRoi Jones, The Need for a Cultural Base to Civil
Rites & Bpower Mooments 159
Philip Roth, Portnoy, the Pumpkin, and the Pilgrim 165
Peter Schrag, The Decline of the Wasp 173
SUCCESS 185
P. T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting 187
Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle 196
Emily Dickinson, Success Is Counted Sweetest 201
Edwin Arlington Robinson, Richard Cory 202
Stephen Crane, The Trees in the Garden Rained
Flowers 203
Booker T. Washington, Sowing and Reaping 204
Dale Carnegie, The Big Secret of Dealing with
People 207
John Cheever, The Pot of Gold 213
Paul Goodman, Jobs 227
Norman Podhoretz, Preface to Making It 233
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, PROGRESS 241
Charles Sumner, The Law of Human Progress 243
Technology and the Poets 249
Walt Whitman, To a Locomotive in Winter 249
Emily Dickinson, I Like to See It Lap the Miles 251
Carl Sandburg, Prayers of Steel 252
Robinson Jeffers, Science 253
E. E. Cummings, pity this busy monster, manunkind254
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Works and Days 255
Henry George, The Problem 260
Mark Twain, Letter to J. H. Twichell 265
Twelve Southerners, Introduction: A Statement
of Principles 268
Gene Marine, America the Raped 274
Donald Barthelme, Report 282
WORKING WITHIN THE SYSTEM 289
George Bancroft, The Office of the People in Art, Government,
and Religion 291
Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience 296
Theodore Roosevelt, The College Graduate and
Public Life 301
Emma Goldman, Anarchism 308
Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet 317
Fred Farrel, The Third Man Emerges 326
Mark Rudd, You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which
Way the Wind Blows 330
George F. Kennan, Rebels Without a Program 339
Epilogue 348
Jean-Francois Revel, Without Marx or Jesus 348