Contents Lesson 1 Face to Face with Hurricane Camille Joseph P. Blank............................................................................................... ........................ 1 Lesson 2 Love Is a Fallacy Max Shulman............................................................................................. .......................... 17 Lesson 3 Blackmail (Excerpts) Arthur Hailey.............................................................................................. ......................... 41 Lesson 4 The Trial That Rocked the World John Scopes.............................................................................................. ............................ 63 Lesson 5 The Libido for the Ugly Henry L. Mencken............................................................................................. ................ 83 Lesson 6 Mark Twain—Mirror of America (Excerpts) Noel Grove............................................................................................... ............................99 Lesson 7 Everyday Use Alice Walker.............................................................................................. ..........................117 Lesson 8 Three Cups of Tea (Excerpts) Greg Mortenson and David O. Relin..............................................................................141 Lesson 9 The Way to Rainy Mountain N. Scott Momaday............................................................................................. ................169 Lesson 10 No Signposts in the Sea (Excerpts) V. Sackville- West................................................................................................ ................191 Lesson 11 Speech on Hitler’s Invasion of the U.S.S.R. Winston S. Churchill..........................................................................................