UNIT ONE
1. How to Be a Patient Person
2. Snapshot of a Dog
3. Is Speed Reading Overrated?
UNIT TWO
4. I Gave My Word to Become Educated
5. Women and the Vote
6. Hollywood
UNIT THREE
7. Long Walk to Freedom
8. Less Time for House Chores
9. "I Wants to Go to the Prose"
UNIT FOUR
10. Home, Sweet (and Sour)Home
11. The Egalitarian Error
12. A Family Who Nurtured a Superstar
TEST YOURSELF (1)
UNIT FIVE
13. Grant and Lee
14. Self-Esteem. The Myth of Feeling Good About Oneself
15. The Open Window
UNIT SIX
16. I Went to Oxford
17. Hiking the Appalachian Trail
18. The Future of International Communications
UNIT SEVEN
19. The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
20. Heritage of Freedom (I)
21. Heritage of Freedom (II)
UNIT EIGHT
22. The Legacy of D-Day
23. The Money
24. Travels with Charley
TEST YOURSELF (2)
APPENDICES:
1. Glossary
2. Key to Test Yourself (1) and (2)
3. Key to Comprehension of the Text