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Table of Contents for Mercury Reader: Moral Leadership
- Reading and Writing
- Malcolm X “A Homemade Education” .
- bell hooks “Talking Back”
- Mitchell Stephens “The Death of Reading”
- Mortimer Adler “How to Mark a Book” .
- Donald Murray “The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts”
- George Orwell “Politics and the English Language”
- Leaders Past and Present
- Thomas Jefferson “The Declaration of Independence”
- Abraham Lincoln “The Emancipation Proclamation”
- Abraham Lincoln “The Second Inaugural Address”
- Bruce Catton “Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrast”
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton “Declaration of Sentiments”
- Susan B. Anthony “Women’s Right to Vote”
- National Archives “Photo of the First Picket Line”
- Statement to the Convention of American Railway Unions “Pullman Strikes”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
- Cornel West “Race Matters”
- Studs Terkel “Roberto Acuna, Migrant Farm Worker”
- J. R. Mandle “The Student Anti-Sweatshop Movement: Limits and Potential”
- Liza Featherstone “The New Student Movement”
- Theories of Leadership
- Daniel Hartnett, S.J . “Arm-in-Arm for Justice”
- John Rawls “A Theory of Justice”
- Elie Wiesel “The Perils of Indifference”
- The Dalai Lama “The Ethic of Compassion”
- Cicero “Statesmanship and Moral Character”
- Niccolo Machiavelli “Whether It Is Better to Be Loved Than Feared”
- Sisela Bok “Lies for the Public Good”
- Wole Soyinka “Every Dictator’s Nightmare”