An American primer / ed. by Daniel J. Boorstin.

To all rediscoverers of the New World

Includes index

Cont.: The Mayflower Compact, 1620 / Samuel Eliot Morison -- John Winthrop, A modell of Christian charity, 1630 / Lawrence W. Towner -- Mary Easty, Petition of an accused witch, 1692 / Edmund S. Morgan -- Gabriel Thomas, An account of Pennsylvania, 1698 / David M. Potter -- Benjamin Franklin, Father Abraham's speech, or, the way to wealth, 1757 / Leonard W. Labaree -- Logan's speech, 1774 / Wilcomb E. Washburn -- Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence / Henry Steele Commager -- Benjamin Franklin, Address to the Federal Convention, 1787 / Ralph L. Ketcham -- The Constitution of the United States of America, 1787, The preamble / Clarence L. Ver Steeg ; Article I / C. Herman Pritchett ; Article II / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. ; Article III / David Fellman ; Article IV / J.A.C. Grant ; Article V. and the amending process / Philip B. Kurland ; Article VI and VII / Alfred H. Kelly ; The Bill of Rights: amendments, I-X / Milton R. Konvitz ; The Civil War amendments: XIII-XV / Francis A. Allen -- George Washington, first inaugural address, 1789 / Clinton Rossiter -- Alexander Hamilton, Report on manufactures, 1791 / Thomas C. Cochran -- George Washington, farewell address, 1796 / Richard B. Morris -- Thomas Jefferson, first inaugural address, 1901 / Dumas Malone

Anthology of essays, laws, speeches and other writings illustrating the American way of life.