Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
Winner of the ZA³calo Book Prize Shortlisted for the 2015 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians aA tour de force. . . . No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.aaGordon Wood, New York Review of Books Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship reveals our nationas founding text to be an animating force that not only changed the world more than two-hundred years ago, but also still can. Challenging conventional wisdom, she boldly makes the case that the Declaration is a document as much about political equality as about individual liberty. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Our Declaration is an auncommonly elegant, incisive, and often poetic primer on Americaas cardinal texta (David M. Kennedy).SeeMcCullough Adams, Kindle location 2014. 80 Abigail ... The great anxiety I feel for my Country, for youand for ourfamily renders the day tedious, and the night unpleasent. ... voiyage voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.
| Title | : | Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality |
| Author | : | Danielle Allen |
| Publisher | : | W. W. Norton & Company - 2014-06-23 |
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