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American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War (Library of America)
Library of America, 2006
Important political speeches from 1761 through Lincoln's Second Inaugural
+ Unlimited, Undaunted, Unusual
+ Wowiwowow - If I can say that
+ A "must-have" for both school and public library reference collections.
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Thomas Jefferson : Writings : Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / ...
Thomas Jefferson
Library of America, 1984
"Men of Men" (born of Women)
+ The Writting of Thomas Jefferson: an outstanding book!
+ A brillant mind but still bound by his times.
+ The other customer reviews seem to be about another book
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The Debate on the Constitution : Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the ...
Library of America, 1993
Provides a complete environment for the Federalist Papers
+ Wonderfull
+ Great for study
+ Constitutional Debates
+ real political analysis
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Reporting World War II Vol. 1: American Journalism 1938-1944 (Library of America)
Library of America, 1995
Another treasure from the wonderul Library of America
+ World War II as it happened
+ Remarkable First Hand Reporting
+ Eyewitnesses to War
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Lincoln: Speeches and Writings: Volume 2: 1859-1865 (Library of America)
Abraham Lincoln
Library of America, 1989
Leadership and Eloquence
+ Lincoln Source Documents in a Gorgeous Printing
+ Great volume covering Lincoln's Presidency & the Civil War
+ Lincoln in His Own Words
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Theodore Roosevelt: Letters and Speeches (Library of America)
Theodore Roosevelt
Library of America, 2004
Notes from the Vigorous Life!
+ Handy collection of TR's letters
Most living today do not know the art of letter writing. Our lives are all phone calls and emails. We live in the instant and do not know the pleasures and benefits of taking time to form thoughts and writing in complete and coherent sentences let alone taking the time to construct paragraphs or ...
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"In a Perilous Hour": The Public Address of John F. Kennedy (Great American Orators)
Steven R. Goldzwig, George N. Dionisopoulos
Greenwood Press, 1995
This first book-length critical analysis of Kennedy's public address defines how he aroused Americans to rise to the opportunities and challenges that he defined for them. This rigorously researched study offers an in-depth analysis of the development of President Kennedy as a public speaker and a balanced view of his civil rights, foreign policy, presidential, and other types of speeches. Eight ...
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Captain John Smith: Writings with Other Narratives of Roanoke, Jamestown, and the First English Settlement of ...
John Smith
Library of America, 2007
A must have for all who are interested in the early settlement of Virginia and New England
+ Behind the Making of the New World
Captain John Smith did an amazing amount of living in the fifty-one years he lived on Earth. His life's journey began in 1580 at Willoughy, England. He left home at 16 after his father's death to become a soldier fighting in France for Dutch Independence from Spain. In other words, he was a ...
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American Speeches: Political Oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton (Library of America)
Library of America, 2006
A treasury of complete American political speeches from Reconstruction to Bill Clinton
About a third of these speeches were delivered in my lifetime and I am pretty aware of most of the speeches included that were delivered during 1963 and later. Yes, I was young, but I was paying attention. I grew up with the echoes of WWII and Korea in my ears and the threat of nuclear war a part ...
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George Washington : Writings (Library of America)
George Washington
Library of America, 1997
In this splendid book, Washington finally speaks for himself
+ Great measure of the man
+ 'Marble Man' of Revolutionary War speaks his mind
George Washington is far more revered than known; but, as this splendid book proves, when you come to know him you feel even more admiration for him. This installment in the indispensable LIBRARY OF AMERICA series gathers hundreds of Washington's letters, as well as his more formal public ...
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Slave Narratives (Library of America)
William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates
Library of America, 2000
The Voices of American Slaves
+ A fine cross-section of African-American slavery experiences
+ A searing collective portrait of life before emanicipation.
This book is a collection of ten narratives that document the nature of American slavery from colonial times to the eve of the Civil War. There are some familar narratives, particularly that of Frederick Douglass (who has a volume of his own in the Library of America series) as well as many ...
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The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence (Library of America)
Various
Library of America, 2001
Source Documents of our Revolution with great helps
+ An amazing book
+ A New Understanding of Our Past and Many Surprises
+ Mosaic that tells the full story
+ Get to know everyone who was there for the Revolution...
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Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959-1975 (Library of America)
Library of America, 2000
Terrific Articles - but don't stop here!
+ Amazing Vietnam War Resource from Beginning to End
+ The Best and The Brightest
+ A Good One!!
+ Semi-definitive 'Nam reportage is contemporary must read!
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Ulysses S. Grant : Memoirs and Selected Letters : Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant / Selected Letters, ...
Ulysses S. Grant
Library of America, 1990
A Masterpiece
+ Superb
+ Thoughtful and Compassionate
+ U.S. Grant in his own words...
+ Review of Memoirs of US Grant
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Reporting Civil Rights, Part One: American Journalism 1941-1963 (Library of America)
Library of America, 2003
A Priceless Documentary of America's Civil Rights Struggle
+ America's Struggle for Civil Rights (II)
America's largest, most continuous, and most pressing domestic issue has been the treatment it has accorded black Americans. Similarly, the most important and valuable social movement in our country in the Twentieth Century was the Civil Rights movement which began, essentially, in the 1940's with ...
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