Author: Henry Steele Commager and Milton Cantor - Editors

Publisher: Prentice-Hall, Inc.

Description: Hardcover. 896 pages. Tenth edition.

Date: 1988

Condition: Covers show some light shelf wear. Clean copy otherwise.

Dust Jacket: None as published.

Contents: This book contains some of the most important United States historical documents of the 20th century up until 1987. Just some of the documents contained in this volume:

Wilson's Speech for Declaration of War (First World War)
Volstead Act (Established Prohibition)
Defeat of the League of Nations
Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address
Tennessee Valley Act
"Hands Off the Western Hemisphere"
Neutrality Act of 1939
Roosevelt's "Four Freedoms" Speech
The Lend Lease Act
Roosevelt's Message Asking For War Against Japan
Declaration of War on Germany
Japanese Relocation Order
The Truman Doctrine
United States Note on Berlin Blockade and Airlift
The Recall of General Douglas Macarthur
And many more including The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, The SALT Treaties, Nixon and China, The Iran-Contra Affair

Altogether this volume includes 381 historically important documents of the 20th century.