Vintage 1976 American Issues Forum NATIONAL BICENTENNIAL PROGRAM Booklet

Rare, Vintage 1976

American Issues Forum

NATIONAL BICENTENNIAL PROGRAM

Booklet

Measures 12” x 12”, with cardboard cover that folds open to bound pages inside. With great illustrations on each page.

From the introduction:

“This brochure introduces the American Issues Forum, a national proaram for the Bicentennial year. The American Issues Forum invites the entire population of the country to engage in a serious exploration of some of the issues that are fundamental to our American society.

What it plans for the Bicentennial year is a nationwide dialogue about our country--what it is, how it got that way, where it is headed. And the invitation to participate is extended to every individual American and to every organization and every institution, large or small

groups of every kind- television, radio, and the press; libraries, schools, colleges, churches and synagogues; labor and professional organizations;

corporations and foundations: service clubs and discussion groups: communities, neighborhoods, and families all are invited to join in using the Forum as a framework for their Bicentennial planning. it is to the leaders in all these areas that this brochure is addressed, for a national dialogue on these issues will need leadership.

The mechanics of the project are simple. The calendar for the Forum covers just nine months, from September 1975 through May 1976. On the following pages, one presented for each of these months an issue that has affected American life from the beginning, that affects it today, and that will surely affect it for generations to come.”

“The American Issues Forum is a program developed for the nation's Bicentennial under the auspices of The National Endowment for the Humanities and with the co-sponsorship of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration.”

From the last page:

“This nine-month calendar has been designed to help Americans explore our nation's 200 years through issues that continue to excite debate among us. It surveys our people and our land, our rights and our government. It examines the way we work, do business, and deal with the rest of the world. It looks at the institutions and ideals that shape us and our way of life. Its aim is that the nation pause for a few moments during its Bicentennial year and try to comprehend what it is that we have wrought on this continent with our impossible dreams and our impulsive, insistent energy; that we try to see what moved us and where it is we are heading. Are the forces that propel us now beyond our control? Or are we still capable, as a people, of taking hold of them and taming them as those who came before us tamed a wild land to their will?”

CONDITION:

Excellent, vintage pre-owned condition. See photos for details.

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