Beinecke’s “Words for the Nation 2020”: Ruth Koizim reads from “Democracy in America” by Alexis de Tocqueville

Prompts from the past for reflection in the present about paths for the future in a selection of readings from the collections. Selections include poems by Langston Hughes; passages from the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and George Washington’s Farewell Address; and excerpts from James Baldwin, Rachel Carson, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Robert Penn Warren. Readers include Claire Barnes, David Blight, Anna Franz, Kahlil Greene, Ruth Koizim, Nancy Kuhl, Willie Jennings, and Asha Rangappa.

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