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Milestone Documents of American Leaders  
Exploring the Primary Sources of Notable Americans
Published by Schlager Group Inc.
ISBN: 9781935306047
Pages: 2300
https://doi.org/9781935306047

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ISBN: 9781935306047

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Subject(s): U.S. History, American History, Primary Sources, Primary Documents, U.S. History, American History, Primary Sources, Primary Documents

This four-volume set continues the "Milestone Documents" tradition of pairing primary source texts with expert analysis by esteemed historians. Here, the lives of notable Americans are illuminated through an in-depth study of the primary source texts they produced during their lifetimes. From presidents, jurists, and legislators to influential private citizens both past and present, "American Leaders" features important full-text sources written by the people who shaped the nation - and crucial scholarly analysis to help the documents come alive.

Abigail Adams 1744–1818
18 pages
John Adams 1735–1826
24 pages
John Quincy Adams 1767–1848
22 pages
Samuel Adams 1722–1803
22 pages
Jane Addams 1860–1935
20 pages
Susan B. Anthony 1820–1906
22 pages
Ella Baker 1903–1986
16 pages
Hugo Black 1886–1971
24 pages
Harry Blackmun 1908–1999
20 pages
Louis D. Brandeis 1856–1941
22 pages
William J. Brennan, Jr. 1906–1997
20 pages
William Jennings Bryan 1860–1925
18 pages
James Buchanan 1791–1868
16 pages
Warren E. Burger 1907–1995
16 pages
Aaron Burr 1756–1836
20 pages
George W. Bush 1946–
18 pages
Robert C. Byrd 1917–
18 pages
John C. Calhoun 1782–1850
22 pages
Salmon P. Chase 1808–1873
18 pages
César Chávez 1927–1993
18 pages
Shirley Chisholm 1924–2005
16 pages
Henry Clay 1777–1852
20 pages
Grover Cleveland 1837–1908
18 pages
Bill Clinton 1946–
20 pages
Jefferson Davis 1808–1889
16 pages
Eugene V. Debs 1855–1926
18 pages
Everett Dirksen 1896–1969
18 pages
Stephen A. Douglas 1813–1861
16 pages
William O. Douglas 1898–1980
24 pages
Frederick Douglass 1818–1895
21 pages
W. E. B. Du Bois 1868–1963
18 pages
Allen Dulles 1893–1969
18 pages
John Foster Dulles 1888–1959
20 pages
Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890–1969
22 pages
Stephen J. Field 1816–1899
18 pages
Felix Frankfurter 1882–1965
22 pages
Ben Franklin 1706–1790
26 pages
Margaret Fuller 1810–1850
16 pages
William Lloyd Garrison 1805–1879
20 pages
Elbridge Gerry 1744–1814
20 pages
Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1933–
18 pages
Emma Goldman 1869–1940
18 pages
Barry Goldwater 1909–1998
16 pages
Samuel Gompers 1850–1924
20 pages
Al Gore 1948–
18 pages
Billy Graham 1918–
18 pages
Ulysses S. Grant 1822–1885
22 pages
Alexander Hamilton ca. 1755–1804
18 pages
John Hancock 1737–1793
18 pages
John Marshall Harlan 1833–1911
20 pages
Patrick Henry 1736–1799
18 pages
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 1841–1935
22 pages
Herbert Hoover 1874–1964
22 pages
J. Edgar Hoover 1885–1972
18 pages
Charles Hamilton Houston 1895–1950
18 pages
Sam Houston 1793–1863
16 pages
Andrew Jackson 1767–1845
20 pages
Jesse Jackson 1941–
14 pages
Robert H. Jackson 1892–1954
18 pages
John Jay 1745–1829
18 pages
Thomas Jefferson 1743–1826
22 pages
Andrew Johnson 1808-1875
16 pages
Lyndon Baines Johnson 1908–1973
20 pages
Barbara Jordan 1936–1996
18 pages
George F. Kennan 1904–2005
20 pages
John F. Kennedy 1917–1963
18 pages
Robert F. Kennedy 1925–1968
16 pages
Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929–1968
22 pages
Robert La Follette 1855–1925
18 pages
Robert E. Lee 1807–1870
20 pages
Abraham Lincoln 1809–1865
22 pages
Henry Cabot Lodge 1850–1924
18 pages
Huey Long 1893–1935
18 pages
James Madison 1751–1836
26 pages
Malcolm X 1925–1965
16 pages
George Marshall 1880–1959
18 pages
John Marshall 1755–1835
22 pages
Thurgood Marshall 1908–1993
19 pages
George Mason 1725–1792
17 pages
Joseph McCarthy 1908–1957
14 pages
William McKinley 1843–1901
18 pages
James Monroe 1758–1831
18 pages
Richard M. Nixon 1913–1994
16 pages
Sandra Day O’Connor 1930–
22 pages
J. Robert Oppenheimer 1904–1967
18 pages
Thomas Paine 1737–1809
17 pages
Ely Parker 1828–1895
17 pages
Alice Paul 1885–1977
16 pages
Frances Perkins 1880–1965
22 pages
Wendell Phillips 1811–1884
18 pages
James Polk 1795–1849
18 pages
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. 1908–1972
18 pages
Colin Powell 1937–
18 pages
Ronald Reagan 1911–2004
22 pages
William Rehnquist 1924–2005
16 pages
Walter Reuther 1907–1970
20 pages
Condoleezza Rice 1954–
18 pages
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884–1962
22 pages
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882–1945
20 pages
Theodore Roosevelt 1858–1919
22 pages
John Ross 1790–1866
20 pages
Margaret Sanger 1879–1966
18 pages
William Henry Seward 1801–1872
16 pages
Roger Sherman 1721–1793
16 pages
Al Smith 1873–1944
16 pages
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815–1902
18 pages
Joseph Story 1779–1845
18 pages
Robert A. Taft 1889–1953
18 pages
Roger B. Taney 1777–1864
18 pages
Tecumseh 1768–1813
12 pages
Strom Thurmond 1902–2003
16 pages
Harry S. Truman 1884–1972
20 pages
Earl Warren 1891–1974
22 pages
Booker T. Washington 1856–1915
18 pages
George Washington 1732–1799
22 pages
Daniel Webster 1782–1852
17 pages
Ida B. Wells 1862–1931
17 pages
Woodrow Wilson 1856–1924
25 pages
Victoria Woodhull 1838–1927
15 pages
Brigham Young 1801–1877
17 pages
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Subject(s): U.S. History, American History, Primary Sources, Primary Documents, U.S. History, American History, Primary Sources, Primary Documents

This four-volume set continues the "Milestone Documents" tradition of pairing primary source texts with expert analysis by esteemed historians. Here, the lives of notable Americans are illuminated through an in-depth study of the primary source texts they produced during their lifetimes. From presidents, jurists, and legislators to influential private citizens both past and present, "American Leaders" features important full-text sources written by the people who shaped the nation - and crucial scholarly analysis to help the documents come alive.

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