State of the union 2013

The Brookings Institution provided coverage of the event: http://www.brookings.edu/research/topics/state-of-the-union?cid=em_sotualert021113
Its Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/brookings?cid=em_sotualert021113 highlighted the best features and they were involved in live tweeting: http://twitter.com/BrookingsInst?cid=em_sotualert021113
The National Academies have produced a guide to the state of the Union for American citizens. Great starting point for those wanting a gentle introduction. It has a transcript plus links to lots of full text academic books published by NAP covering the topics mentioned in the address: http://notes.nap.edu/2013/02/13/the-state-of-the-union-address/

Reminder, on the Library’s USA Government Archives page http://www.le.ac.uk/library/find/subjects/history/usgovernment we have a link to the state of the Union addresses 1790 – 2008 http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/StateOfTheUnion/