How Great Documents Have Shaped America's Life, Thought and History

Here available for the first time in a single inexpensive edition, are the documents, speeches and letters which have forged American history, accompanied by interpretations of their significance by a noted historian and scholar. The combination of narrative and documentation makes a new and interesting kind of American history.

Among the important documents in this book you will find:
-The complete text of the Declaration of Independence
-The complete Constitution of the United States
-The Federalist Paper No. 10
-Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton
-Washington's Farewell Address
-Jefferson's First Inaugural Address
-The Monroe Doctrine
-Dred Scott Decision
-Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
-The Emancipation Proclamation
-The Gettysburg Address
-Andrew Carnegie on "Wealth"
-Theodore Roosevelt on the "New Nationalism"
-Woodrow Wilson's War Message to Congress
-Herbert Hoover's "Rugged Individualism" Speech
-Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" Speech
-The Atlantic Charter
-George C. Marshall's foreign aid speech at Harvard

Up-dated in this new edition with:
-Walt Whitman's "Democratic Vistas"
-Earl Warren's Segregation Decision
-Tom Paine's "Common Sense"