This recording presents a series of patriotic selections of unquestioned literary
merit. The purpose is to teach patriotism. This is accomplished through stories chosen with
special regard to their effectiveness as avenues through which young people may experience
the patriotic sentiments and emotions upon which love of native land depends.

These selections will inspire an enthusiastic love of country and will create a pronounced
regard for the institutions and ideals so sacred to all Americans. They include:

The Man without a Country by Edward Everett Hale

Washington by Nina Moore Tiffany

David Crockett, Defender of the Alamo by Charles Fletcher Allen

Lincoln: The Man of Sorrows by Major Stephen Brice

What a Boy Saw of the Civil War with Glimpses of General Lee by Leighton Parks

A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard

Patrick Cullen, a native of Massachusetts, is a graduate of The Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C., where he continues to live and work in the theater.