American Primer

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Summary: An American education in one voluime
Review: Included in this volume are fundamental documents of American political life, from the Mayflower compact of 1620, and including the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, Washington's Farewell Address, Thoreau's Civil Disobedience, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, William James Pragmatism, Wendell Wilkie's One World Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance, John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address. There are eighty- three selections which touch upon American political , economic and cultural history. The documents are analyzed by eminent historians including Daniel Boorstin, Samuel Eliot Morrison, David Potter, Martin Marty, Dumas Malone, Clinton Rossiter, Leonard W. Levy,and others. The volume has an introduction by Daniel Boorstin.
This work provides American education in one volume. I dip into it sometimes and read here and there one of the documents, and its analysis.