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Espionage and intrigue have always played a role in the history of the United States, from the American Revolution and Benedict Arnold to the cyber-spying activities of today. A variety of motives stand behind the actions of those featured in this set, from greed and power to a strong sense of patriotism and national pride. Topics analyzed in Volume 1 include: Klaus Fuchs (Manhattan Project), Silvermaster Spy Ring (places Soviet spies in US government positions), Cuban Missile Crisis, Edward Snowden, Mark Felt (Deep Throat), Daniel Ellsberg (Pentagon Papers). Topics discussed in Volume 2 include: Economic Espionage Act of 1996, Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide corporate espionage suit against Hilton, Peter Buxtun (Tuskegee Syphillis Experiment), Ron Ridenhour (Mai Lai Massacre in Vietnam), Frank Serpico (corruption in police force NYC), Sherron Watkins (Enron). Each in-depth chapter provides a thorough commentary and analysis of each primary source document, often reprinted in its entirety. Commentary includes a Summary, Overview, Defining Moment, Author Biography, Detailed Document Analysis, and discussion of Essential Themes. Many of these chapters are bolstered through the inclusion of Supplemental Historical Documents, which broaden the scope of the book and offer additional context. -- Publisher

"Defining Documents in American History: The Free Press offers an in-depth analysis of 50 primary source documents at the foundation of the study of freedom of speech. These include letters, newspaper reports, book excerpts, speeches, political debates, testimony, court rulings, and more. These selections explore the intricacies of defining what is meant by freedom of the press and how it is understood and applied in the United States."--Publisher's website

Volume 1. From The Prince -- "Advice to a Young Tradesman" -- Adam Smith, from The Theory of Moral Sentiments -- Fletcher v. Peck -- Lowell Mill Girls -- From "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" -- From The Life of P.T. Barnum -- Presidential Proclamations on Blockade and Commercial Trade -- From Utilitarianism -- "The Money Power" -- Documents Relating to Black Friday, 1869 -- Verse and Cartoon about Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall -- Crédit Mobilier Scandal -- Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act -- Andrew Carnegie: "The Gospel of Wealth" -- Eugene Debs: "What Can We Do for Working People?" -- Sherman Antitrust Act -- "Wall Street Owns the Country" -- Frick's Fracas--Henry Frick Makes His Case -- "The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over" -- From The Theory of the Leisure Class -- Coal Strike Hearings: The Miners Testify -- An Immigrant Garment Worker's "Days and Dreams" -- Theodore Roosevelt on Corporate Trusts -- "Echoes from the Recent Pennsylvania Coal Strike" -- Jane Addams: "Child Labor and Other Dangers of Childhood" -- From The Jungle -- Fire Hazards in New York City Factories -- Clayton Act -- On the Teapot Dome Scandal -- From My Life and Work, by Henry Ford.

Complete List of Contents -- Publisher's Note -- Introduction -- Contributors -- The First and Second Party Systems, 1787-1854 -- Federalist No. 10 -- George Washington's First Inaugural Address -- Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry -- Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address -- Andrew Jackson to Henry Lee -- "The South in Danger" -- Kansas-Nebraska Act -- The Third Party System, 1854-96 -- "House Divided" Speech -- The Lincoln-Douglas Debates -- On the Irrepressible Conflict -- Cooper Union Address -- Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address -- Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address -- President Grant's First Inaugural Address -- A Contested Election: Report to Congress on the Activities of the Ku Klux Klan -- Documents Relating to the Grant-Greeley Election of 1872 -- Samuel Tilden's Speech Conceding the Election of 1876 -- Benjamin Harrison's Speech to the Harrison League of Indianapolis -- "Cross of Gold" Speech -- The Fourth Party System, 1896-1932 -- The March of the Flag -- Platform of the Progressive Party -- The "New Freedom" -- Woodrow Wilson's Second Inaugural Address -- Warren G. Harding's "Not Nostrums, but Normalcy" Speech -- "The Destiny of America" -- Herbert Hoover on "The Constructive Side of Government" -- The National Anthem Established: The Star-Spangled Banner

Offers in-depth analysis of seventy-five documents. Readers will find speeches, memos, letters, reports, transcripts, minutes, and testimony related to some of the nation's most notorious scandals including Benedict Arnold's letters to Major John André, the House that Tweed Built, impeachment proceedings against two presidents, the Teapot Dome Scandal, The Zimmerman Telegram, the Vietnam War, Watergate and Whitewater, reports from commissions that investigated the assassination of President Kennedy and 9-11, transcripts of trials, e-mails that document the Flint, Michigan, water crisis, the unmasking of Valerie Plame, minutes from a meeting just before the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the Manning-Lamo chat logs that detail how Manning leaked classified materials to Wikileaks, and e-mails hacked from John Podesta's Gmail account demonstrating that Hillary Clinton was the beneficiary of a political favor during the 2016 primaries

This title offers analysis of a broad range of historical documents and historic events from a century during which slavery was abolished and the Industrial Revolution gave rise to the middle class. Includes legal codes, letters, speeches, constitutions, reports, and books that impacted the world throughout the nineteenth century, from the Napoleonic code to Darwin's Descent of Man. Articles are organized into four regional groupings: Europe, Asia, Africa, and America

v. 1. "On the Unjust Treatment of Homosexuals" -- Excerpts from The Drag -- Blue Discharge -- Missions and Purposes of the Mattachine Society -- Executive Order 10450 - Security Requirements for Government Employment -- Excerpt from Sexual Behavior in the Human Female -- Purpose of the Daughters of Bilitis -- Giovanni's Room -- One, Inc. v. Olesen -- Illinois State Code 1961 -- First Issue of The Los Angeles Advocate -- Stonewall Riot leaflet -- "Come Out!" -- Radicalesbians : "The Woman-Identified Woman" -- Statements by the American Psychological Association regarding Homosexuality -- "The Hope Speech" -- The Five Demands of the First National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights -- The Great Lawsuit : Man versus Men, Woman versus Women / Margaret Fuller (July 1843) -- The Plot of The Drag / Mae West (1927) -- The Intermediate Sex from Love's Coming of Age / Edward Carpenter (1908) -- The Rights of Gay People by the American Civil Liberties Union -- "A Gay Manifesto," / Carl Wittman (1970) -- Quotes from Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953) -- Introduction to The Second Sex / Simone de Beauvoir (1949) -- A Brief of Injustices from The Ladder, 1965 Vol. 10 No. 02 (1965) -- ONE's Articles of Incorporation (1953) -- President Obama Declares Stonewall Area a National Monument (2016) -- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Sexual Deviation (1952) -- "Homosexuality as a Clinical Entity Does Not Exist" (1957) -- "Gender Identity Disorder," as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (1994) -- Standards of Care for Gender Identity Disorders, by Harry Benjamin, International Gender Dysphoria Association (2001) -- California Proposition 6, The Briggs Initiative (1978) -- Remembering the March, Twenty-Five Years Later (2004) -- "The only thing I would change about my sexuality is how others treat me for it."

The Saud Family and Wahhabi Islam -- The D'Arcy Oil Concession -- Hussein-McMahon Correspondence -- Sykes-Picot Agreement -- Balfour Declaration -- Charter of the Arab League -- CIA Summary of the Overthrow of Premier Mossadeq of Iran -- Baghdad Pact -- Gamal Abdel Nasser on the Nationalization of the Suez Canal -- The Eisenhower Doctrine -- Sayyid Qutb on Jihad -- Muhammad Qutb on the Origins of Islam -- Ayatollah Khomeini on "The Great Satan" -- Documents Relating to the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan -- Memos Concerning a Meeting between Donald Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein -- President George H.W. Bush on the Cessation of the Persian Gulf War -- The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing: Report and Analysis -- From the "Clash of Civilizations" -- Osama bin Laden's Declaration of Jihad Against the Americans -- News Account of the USS Cole Bombing -- Memo on the Urgent Need to Address the al-Qaeda Threat -- Destruction of the Buddhist Statues at Bamiyan -- President George W. Bush's Statement to the Nation on 9/11 -- Osama bin Laden's Video Statement -- Excerpts from Knights under the Prophet's Banner -- On Counterterrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy -- Public Statement on the Release of the 9/11 Commission Report -- NATO Press Conference with Donald Rumsfeld -- Colin Powell on Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction -- Hans Blix on U.N. Weapons Inspection Efforts in Iraq -- George W. Bush's Address to the Nation on Military Operations in Iraq -- From The Crisis of Islam -- "Mission to Niger" and the Valerie Plame Affair -- Intelligence Report on Iraq's Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction -- From the Fay Report on the Abu Ghraib Prisoner Abuse Scandal -- Declaration of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi at the Execution of Nicholas Berg -- Manning-Lamo Chat Logs -- President Obama's Remarks on the Killing of Osama bin Laden -- Snowden E-mail -- U.N. Report on the Alleged Use of Chemical Weapons in the Ghouta Area of Damascus on 21 August 2013 -- Islamic State--Proclamation of the Caliphate -- Remarks by Abdullah II of Jordan before the U.N. General Assembly -- Hassan Rouhani's Address before the U.N. General Assembly -- Benjamin Netanyahu: Speech before the U.N. General Assembly -- Donald Trump's Call for a "Muslim Ban" -- Time Line of 9/11.

v.1 [1803 to 1952] The founding years to the mid nineteenth century : Marbury v. Madison ; Martin v. Hunter's Lessee ; McCulloch v. Maryland ; Gibbons v. Ogden ; State v. Mann ; Cherokee Nation v. Georgia ; Worcester v. Georgia ; Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge ; United States v. Amistad ; Prigg v. Pennsylvania ; Roberts v. City of Boston ; Dred Scott v. Sandford -- Maturation pains : from reconstruction to the mid-twentieth century : Texas v. White ; United States v. Cruikshank ; Plessy v. Ferguson ; The Insular Cases: Downes v. Bidwell ; Lochner v. New York ; Muller v. Oregon ; Guinnn v. United States ; Hammer v. Dagenhart ; Abrams v. United States (Holmes dissent) ; Buck v. Bell ; Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States ; United States v. Curtiss- Wright ; Korematsu v. United States ; Shelley v. Kraemer ; Sweatt v. Painter ; Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer.

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