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245 00 $aWords that make America great /$c[compiled by] Jerome Agel ; section introductions by Milton J. Cantor.
250 $a1st pbk. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c1999.
300 $axx, 587 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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500 $aIncludes index.
500 $a"Originally published in hardcover by Random House, Inc. in 1997"--Title page verso.
505 2 $aChronological index. -The Mayflower Compact (1620). -The Declaration of Independence (1776). -The Constitution of the United States (1787-1992). -The Northwest Ordinance (1787). -The Louisiana Purchase (1803). -The Missouri Compromise (1820). -Freedom of the press (1735). -Women's rights (1848). -The Dred Scott decision (1857). -Brown v. Board of Education (1954). -Voting rights (1965). -Civil Rights Act (1968). -Roe v. Wade (1973). -The Townsend Plan (1933). "I have a dream" Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963). -The New Colossus (1886). -Lincoln's "House divided" speech (1858). -Dixie (1859). -The Emancipation Proclamation (1863). -Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1863). -The G. I. Bill (1944). -Griswold v. Connecticut (1965). -Contract with America (1994). -First Presidential Inaugural Address (1789). -Washington's Farewell Address (1796). -The Monroe Doctrine (1823). -Lend-lease (1940). -"A date which will live in infamy." U. S. declares war against Japan (1941). -V-J Day (1945). -"Guard against ... the military-industrial complex." Ike's farewell (1961). -The Peace Corps (1961). -"By whatever means necessary" Interdicting Soviet weapons to Cuba (1962). -The Berlin Wall cracks (1989). -The Iroquois Federation Constitution (c.1570). -The Black Hills Treaty (1877). -"I will fight no more forever" Chief Joseph surrenders (1877). -The Tennessee Valley Authority Act (1933). -The Clean Air Act (1970). -The Energy Reorganization Act (1974). -Americans With Disabilities Act (1990). -The Homestead Act (1862). -The Pacific Railway Act (1862). -Teapot Dome (1924). -The National Environmental Policy Act (1969). -The Jay Treaty (1794). -The Atlantic Charter (1941). -Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech (1946). -The Marshall Plan (1947). -The North Atlantic Treaty (1949). -The Pentagon Papers (1971). -The War Powers Resolution (1973). -The Gulf War (1991). -Tocqueville Democracy in America (1835). -Thoreau on Civil disobedience (1846). -"Leaves of grass ... extraordinary" Emerson writes Whitman (1855). -The Comstock Acts (1873). -The Wrights fly (1903). -The National Archives (1934). -"It may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction" Einstein writes the President (1939). -America First (1940). -A "Vast wasteland." (1961). -The Kerner Report (1968). -Economic justice for all (1986). -"Fallen cold and dead" O Captain! My Captain! (1865). -A message to Garcia (1899). -The Peacetime draft (1940). -Richard M. Nixon's Checkers Speech (1952). -The Senate censures Senator McCarthy (1954). -The Warren Commission Report (1964).
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