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Read Ebook: The American Spirit in the Writings of Americans of Foreign Birth by Stauffer Robert Elihu Editor
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INTRODUCTION 9
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 15
PHILIP SCHAFF 20
Cosmopolitan Character of "American Nationality" 21
FRANCES D'ARUSMONT 29
The Constitution and Establishment of the Federal Government 30
FRANCIS LIEBER 33
A German Immigrant Points Out the Dangers of Segregation 34
Political Liberty in America 36
CARL SCHURZ 38
An Immigrant's Tribute to Lincoln 39
"True Americanism" 40
EDWIN LAWRENCE GODKIN 44
An Immigrant's Faith in Democracy 45
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY 52
"The Exile of the Gael" 52
"The Pilgrim Fathers" 54
"Liberty Lighting the World" 55
"America" 57
HANS MATTSON 58
Scandinavian Contribution to American Nationality 59
JACOB RIIS 61
"A Young Man's Hero": An Immigrant's Tribute to Roosevelt 63
JACOB VAN DER ZEE 66
"Why Dutch Emigrants Turned to America" 67
EDWARD BOK 71
OSCAR SOLOMON STRAUS 72
"America and the Spirit of American Judaism" 73
The American Ideal 78
MARY ANTIN 82
An Immigrant's Tribute to the Public School and to George Washington 83
"The Law of the Fathers": A View of the Declaration of Independence 89
ABRAHAM MITRIE RIHBANY 91
America Offers Something Better than Money 92
An Immigrant Tells his Struggles with the English Language 94
EDWARD ALFRED STEINER 96
"The Criminal Immigrant" 97
Industrialism and the Immigrant 105
GEORGE A. GORDON 111
"The Foreign-born American Citizen": Cost, Privilege and Duties of his Citizenship 112
SERAPHIM G. CANOUTAS 121
Americanization: Its Principles and Meaning 123
STEFANO MIELE 125
Some Obstacles to Americanization 126
JOHN KULAMER 130
"The American Spirit and Americanization" 131
ENRICO C. SARTORIO 136
Patronizing the Foreigner 137
Training for Citizenship 140
OTTO HERMANN KAHN 143
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