Author: MONAGHAN, Frank
Title: Heritage of Freedom: The History & Significance of the Basic Documents of American Liberty
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1947. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. 150pp. Illustrations. Very good. 1948 ownership signature on half-title page (which notes this was purchased aboard the Freedom Train in Chicago in July 1948). A tight and lovely first edition of this text "presenting and explaining the documents on the Freedom Train" -- which was a once-in-a-lifetime gathering of over one hundred original significant documents, ranging from early colonial to General Yamashita's 1945 surrender to the American forces in the Philippines, aboard a special train that toured the U.S. Many are illustrated full page. .

Keywords: Americana


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