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A 2004 Audie 'Audiobook of the Year' Finalist

Edited by Caroline Kennedy - Unabridged Nonfiction - 3 COMPACT DISCS - 3 hours

Publisher, Hyperion Audiobooks (May 2003)

"Exactly what we need these days to remind us of who we are and who we hope to be." --O Magazine

Featuring archival recordings of Neil Armstrong, Robert Frost, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ronald Reagan, John McCain, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Selections also narrated by various notables including James Earl Jones, Edward M. Kennedy, Martha Plimpton, and Vanessa Williams.

When John F. Kennedy called America "the land we love" more than 42 years ago, he was reminding us of the lofty ideals on which our country was founded. But what are those ideals, and how have Americans defined them? Is America the land of George Washington and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who rallied the country's spirits for unity in wartime, or is it a land of dissent, a land in which Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Martin Luther King, Jr. remind us of our duty to protect our most fundamental freedoms? Are we defined by the speeches of Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan or by the humor of H.L. Mencken and Mark Twain?

Caroline Kennedy's answer in A Patriot's Handbook is that we are all of those things and more.

The poems, songs, speeches, letters, and historical documents that Caroline Kennedy has chosen for this remarkable collection remind us of the foundations on which America was built. But they also ask us to examine what it truly means to be a "patriot," even if our assumptions are challenged along the way, because it is only by doing so that America can "truly be our own."

Hear from "Voices" as diverse as the nation itself:

Thomas Jefferson
Cole Porter
Chief Red Jacket
Amy Tan
Betty Friedan
Albert Einstein
George W. Bush
Loretta Lynn
John F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bob Dylan
Cesar Chavez
Toni Morrison
Groucho Marx
and many more

About the Author: Caroline Kennedy is the editor of the New York Times bestselling The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Profiles in Courage for Our Time, and the co-author of The Right to Privacy and In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action. She heads the Office of Strategic Partnerships for the New York City Department of Education and serves as the president of the John F. Kennedy Foundation.