The People Speak: American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known, from Columbus to the Present

Celebrates the history of America in the words of famous and not-so-famous Americans, including selections by Christopher Columbus, Mark Twain, Helen Keller, Eugene Debs, a Lowell Mill worker, Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, and a Gulf War resister, interspersed with commentary by the author. Read by James Earl Jones, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Daddy Glover, Harris Yulin, and others. Simultaneous.