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American Jeremiad: A Manifesto

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By WEN STEPHENSON

He has not done his homework. He could start with Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. Better the sermons of the other Jonathan Edwards. Continue through Joe Hill on through Peat Seager and into the modern. There are others in other media. Lincoln's Gettysburg address or second inaugural, Newton Minow and "A vast Wasteland" comes to mind. Jane Fonda speaking in Hanoi. Timothy Leary on LSD in any number of speaches. Thurgood Marshal's closing in Brown v board. Take your pick. The manifesto bears our stamp. FDR declaring.