Book Assignment: Spring 2020 Students: Write an analytical essay about one of th

Book Assignment: Spring 2020
Students: Write an analytical essay about one of the
following books answering the following questions: 1) Identify a
thesis or purpose of the author; 2) Who is the author’s audience?
; 3 What is the historical importance of this work? ; and 4)
Does the author succeed in proving his thesis or purpose?
Your essay must be typed, double spaced, from 4-6 pages,
and submitted in person to the instructor on the due date
Choose one from the following books:
Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca. Castawavs.
Bartolomé de Las Casas. The Destruction of the Indies.
Frederick Douglass. My Bondage, My Freedom.
Oladuah Equiano. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of
Oladuah Equiano.
Benjamin Franklin, Louis Mansur ed. The Autobiography of
Benjamin Franklin.
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, et. al. The
Federalist Papers.
Harriet Jacobs. Incidents in the Live of a Slave Girl.
Thomas Jefferson. The Portable Jefferson.
Solomon Northup, Twelve Years, A Slave.
Miguel León-Portilla. Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the
Conquest of Mexico.
Thomas Paine. Thomas Paine Reader.
Henry David Thoreau. Portable Thoreau.
Alexis de Tocqueville. Democracy in America (abridged
edition)