Heffner Alexander - A Documentary History of the United States

Here are the words of noted Americans in many of the major documents that have shaped and reflected American historycollected in one inexpensive volume, ideal for both student and general reader.

In addition to selecting and editing the actual texts of these speeches and other writings, historian Richard D. Heffner has written a series of brief interpolatory passages that explains the significance of these documents, together with their place in the events and developments of American history.

From these documents and commentaries, which range from the Declaration of Independence to the National Organization for Womens (NOWs) 1966 Statement of Purpose, from Jeffersons First Inaugural Address to Obamas, from Walt Whitmans Democratic Vistas to Edward R. Murrow on television in American life, from Marbury v. Madison to Roe v. Wade, from major Lincoln and FDR speeches to Barack Obamas, the social, political, and intellectual patterns of American history through 9/11, the Bush/Cheney years, and the two elections of the first African-American as President of the United States emerge in sharp focus.

Both as a sourcebook of hard-to-find basic documents and as a stimulating guide to a fuller understanding of Americas past and present, A Documentary History of the United States is an invaluable volume for every intelligent reader.

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First published by Signet, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. The seventh and eighth editions of this title were previously published in Signet editions. The first six editions of this title were previously published in Mentor editions.

First Printing (Updated and Expanded Edition), October 2013

Copyright Richard D. Heffner, 1952, 1956, 1965, 1976, 1985, 1991, 1995, 2001, 2002

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To my Mother and Father

with love, honor, and gratitude

R ICHARD D. H EFFNER , 1952