The American Freedoms Primer: A Citizen's Guidebook to the by Les Adams

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By Les Adams

The American Freedoms Primer is a compilation of the main traditionally major speeches and writings on liberty, from the 17th century to the current day. a few of the declarations contained in those pages have stimulated and encouraged laws, shaping usa guidelines on human equality and civil rights. a number of works by way of theorists and philosophers who drove the growth of capitalism and democracy are incorporated, reminiscent of John Locke, Edmund Burke, and Samuel Adams.

Several of this nation's founding fathers give a contribution seminal works to boot, together with, yet now not restricted to, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison. Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural tackle, Emancipation Proclamation, and his Gettysburg tackle are all in the following, as are the works of alternative 19th century philosophical and criminal geniuses, resembling Daniel Webster, Frederick Douglass, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Finally, of the good twentieth-century orators and writers on civil liberties, this e-book attracts from Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr, and several other others.

This pocket-sized ebook will motivate and educate.

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