Spirit of America: Chicken Soup for the Soul

Proud, industrious, creative, generous, and patriotic—that’s the spirit of America!

In this collection of 101 stories about the spirit of America and what makes our country great, you’ll read about:

• America’s heroes—service members, military families, veterans, and first responders
• 9/11 fifteen years later—the families, the rescuers, the air traffic controllers who were on duty, the spirit of a united nation in the days that followed
• Our vast and beautiful land—from beaches to mountains, from tropics to desert
• Traditions—from baseball to apple pie to parades to our national parks
• American ingenuity, from the space program to made-in-America to our can-do attitude
• Our generosity and compassion— we are a nation of helping hands
• Our diversity and our proud new citizens
• The red, white, and blue—our flag and what it means to us