Product Overview
Here, in a single volume, are the documents, speeches, and letters that have forged American history.
Accompanied by interpretations of their significance by noted historian and broadcaster Richard D. Heffner and online journalist Alexander Heffner, this book includes important documents such as:
The complete text of the Declaration of Independence
The complete Constitution of the United States
The Monroe Doctrine
The Emancipation Proclamation
Woodrow Wilsons War Message to Congress
Franklin D. Roosevelts Four Freedoms Speech
John F. Kennedys Inaugural Address
Martin Luther King, Jr.s I Have a Dream Speech
Ronald Reagans Inaugural Addresses, 1981 and 1985
Documents relating to September 11, 2001
This edition has been expanded and updated to include anew chapter on the Bush/Cheney Administration and the First and Second Election and Inauguration of Barack Obama as the Forty-Fourth President of the United States
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