Volume II of the Penguin American Collection
Table of Contents
- The Penguin "Foundations of Democracy" Collection
- Buy The "Foundations of Democracy" Collection
- Technical Difficulties
- Foundations in Democracy (Ada - Cre)
- Foundations in Democracy (Dan - Dou)
- Foundations in Democracy(Dou - Gra)
- The "Foundations in Literature" Collection
- Foundations in Democracy (Ham - Jam)
- Foundations in Democracy (Jef - Pai)
- Foundations in Democracy(Pai - She)
- The "Complete Greeks & Romans" Collection.
- Foundations in Democracy (Str - Tho)
- Foundations in Democracy (Tro - Was)
- Foundations in Democracy (Various)
- More Like This
- Titles Available for Kindle and Kindle DX
- The Whole Ed Cata-Blog
The Penguin "Foundations of Democracy" Collection
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The American literary tradition is so rich and varied that the Penguin Classics editors have grouped the collection into two volumes, with Volume I focused on the novels, short stories, and poetry through the 19th century, and Volume II focused on the political writings, memoirs, and narratives that chronicle the birth and growth of the nation.
In Volume II: Foundations in Democracy, you'll find early accounts of Native American life in the journals of artist George Catlin; colonial narratives from St. John de Crevecouer (Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth Century America); the captivity narratives of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs (Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl), and Sojourner Truth; the autobiographies, memoirs, and notes of Ulysses S. Grant, Thomas Jefferson, William Tecumseh Sherman, Abraham Lincoln, and Benjamin Franklin; the essays and poetry of Emerson; The Federalist Papers by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, considered by Thomas Jefferson to be the best commentary on the principle of government ever written; the transcendentalist writings of Henry David Thoreau (including "Civil Disobedience," perhaps the most famous essay in American literature); and much more.
From the Age of Reason through Romanticism, Transcendentalism, the Civil War, the western movement of the 1800s, to the dawn of the 20th century, the canvas of American history bursts forth with the ingenuity, exuberance, and democratic spirit that is the foundation of the nation.
Included are 43 titles:
Buy The "Foundations of Democracy" Collection
Political Writings, Memoirs, and Narratives
The American Collection, Vol. II: Foundations in Democracy (Penguin Classics Complete Collections)
Amazon Price: (as of 11/15/2009) 
Technical Difficulties
Amazon seems to be discontinuing these Penguin Library Collections -- having already scrapped the "Complete Greeks and Romans" and "Classics Library" items. We're scrambling to preserve the top-sellers lists now, and there may be some temporary repetition in this listing.
Foundations in Democracy (Ada - Cre)
Abagail Adams, John Adams, George Catlin, Owen Chase, J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
Amazon Price: $11.56 (as of 11/14/2009)
The Portable John Adams (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $13.50 (as of 11/14/2009)
North American Indians (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $14.53 (as of 11/14/2009)
The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $10.20 (as of 11/14/2009)
Letters from an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 11/14/2009)
Foundations in Democracy (Dan - Dou)
Richard Henry Dana, Alexis de Tocqueville, Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca, Charles Dickens, Frederick Douglass
Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $11.70 (as of 11/15/2009)
Democracy in America (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.57 (as of 11/15/2009)
Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.23 (as of 11/15/2009)
American Notes for General Circulation (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $10.14 (as of 11/15/2009)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Written by Himself
Amazon Price: $9.35 (as of 11/15/2009)
Foundations in Democracy(Dou - Gra)
Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Olaudah Equiano, Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant
My Bondage and My Freedom (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.57 (as of 11/15/2009)
Nature and Selected Essays (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $11.90 (as of 11/15/2009)
The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.64 (as of 11/15/2009)
The Autobiography and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.00 (as of 11/15/2009)
Personal Memoirs (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $13.26 (as of 11/15/2009)
The "Foundations in Literature" Collection
The American Collection, Volume I
The Foundations in Literature Collection is the other half of Penguin's American Collection. Read More Here
The American Collection, Vol. I: Foundations in Literature (Penguin Classics Complete Collections)
Amazon Price: (as of 11/15/2009)
Foundations in Democracy (Ham - Jam)
Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harriet Jacobs, William James
The Federalist Papers (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $10.20 (as of 11/15/2009)
Army Life in a Black Regiment: and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $16.00 (as of 11/15/2009)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.57 (as of 11/15/2009)
Pragmatism and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $12.00 (as of 11/15/2009)
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (Penguin American Library)
Amazon Price: $9.89 (as of 11/15/2009)
Foundations in Democracy (Jef - Pai)
Thomas Jefferson, Elizabeth Keckley, Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Paine
Notes on the State of Virginia (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $10.20 (as of 11/15/2009)
Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $11.90 (as of 11/15/2009)
The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition)
Amazon Price: $12.48 (as of 11/15/2009)
Rights of Man (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 11/15/2009)
Common Sense (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $8.00 (as of 11/15/2009)
Foundations in Democracy(Pai - She)
Thomas Paine, Francis Parkman, John Wesley Powell, William Reynolds, William Tecumseh Sherman
The Thomas Paine Reader (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $12.00 (as of 11/15/2009)
The Oregon Trail (The Penguin American Library)
Amazon Price: $10.55 (as of 11/15/2009)
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 11/15/2009)
The Private Journal of William Reynolds: United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $11.25 (as of 11/15/2009)
Memoirs (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $13.60 (as of 11/15/2009)
The "Complete Greeks & Romans" Collection.
The Complete Greeks and Romans Collection isn't part of this collection, but both are part of The Penguin Classics Complete Library Collection. Read more here
The Complete Greeks and Romans (Penguin Classics Complete Collections)
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Foundations in Democracy (Str - Tho)
Charles A. Siringo, John Tanner, Henry David Thoreau
A Texas Cowboy: or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $11.25 (as of 11/15/2009)
The Falcon (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $11.25 (as of 11/15/2009)
A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851 (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $12.48 (as of 11/15/2009)
Walden and Civil Disobedience (Penguin American Library)
Amazon Price: $8.64 (as of 11/15/2009)
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $12.00 (as of 11/15/2009)
Foundations in Democracy (Tro - Was)
Fanny Trollope, Sojourner Truth, Various Authors, Booker T. Washington
Domestic Manners of the Americans (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 11/15/2009)
Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $7.91 (as of 11/15/2009)
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $9.35 (as of 11/15/2009)
Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $11.87 (as of 11/15/2009)
Foundations in Democracy (Various)
Various Authors
Colonial American Travel Narratives (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $16.15 (as of 11/15/2009)
Early American Writing (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $13.60 (as of 11/15/2009)
Women's Indian Captivity Narratives (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $10.20 (as of 11/15/2009)
Women's Early American Historical Narratives (Penguin Classics)
Amazon Price: $15.00 (as of 11/15/2009)
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Titles Available for Kindle and Kindle DX
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