The American Freedoms Primer: A Citizen's Guidebook to the Most Celebrated Declarations of American Liberty

By Les Adams

A compilation of the most historically significant speeches and writings on liberty from the seventeenth century to the present day.

Many of the declarations contained in these pages have influenced and inspired legislation, shaping United States policies on human equality and civil rights. Several works by theorists and philosophers who drove the expansion of capitalism and democracy are included, such as John Locke, Edmund Burke, and Samuel Adams.

Many of America’s founding fathers contribute seminal works as well, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison. Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural Address, Emancipation Proclamation, and Gettysburg Address are all here, as are the works of other nineteenth century philosophical and legal thinkers, such as Daniel Webster, Frederick Douglass, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Finally, of the great twentieth-century orators and writers on civil liberties, this book draws from Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr, and several others.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Jan 6, 2015
• ISBN: 9781629148557

Les Adams

Les Adams is a lawyer, editor, and publisher. He has a BA in English from the University of North Carolina, an MA in English from Columbia University, a JD, cum laude, from the Cumberland Law School of Samford University, and an LLD from Iowa’s William Penn College. He is a member of the Alabama Bar Association and a life member of the National Rifle Association. He resides in Houston, Texas.