The collection includes articles, letters, speeches, excerpts from the diaries of American romantic writers - F. Freneau, G. Thoreau, E. Poe, R. W. Emerson, N. Hawthorne and others. The basis of ethical philosophy and journalism These writers underlie a romantic criticism of bourgeois society, the cult of money-grubbing, wars of aggression and slavery. They strive to outline the paths for the development of the American nation and national culture. Their journalistic heritage rightfully belongs to the literary classics of the United States of America. Recommended to a wide range of readers.