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The Living Declaration: A Biography of America's Founding Text
Aus der Reihe
The Library of America
30,90 €
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Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
23.06.2026
Verlag
Library Of AmericaSeitenzahl
393 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
10172 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781598538458
INSIDE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: A historian and former presidential speechwriter traces the origins and legacy of the words and ideas that made America. Illustrations and close readings of 68 original texts offer new insights on the American Revolution, the Civil War, and other key moments and figures in American history. We hold these truths to be self-evident . . . all men are created equal . . . with certain inalienable rights . . . life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." 250 years after they were written, these words remain at once familiar and startling. What do they mean to us today? Do we understand them in the same way the Founders did? Historian and former presidential speechwriter Ted Widmer seeks to answer these questions by returning to where the nation's story began, the Declaration of Independence, to trace the remarkable history of how it came to be and how it has shaped the democratic aspirations of Americans and others for more than two centuries. Weaving together more than sixty fascinating original texts, Widmer finds in the words of succeeding generations of Americans-radicals and conservatives, revolutionary insurgents and civil rights leaders, presidents and philosophers-the key to understanding the extraordinary durability of America's founding ideas. An expert guide, Widmer introduces us to:
- the revolutionary writings that set the stage for the Declaration
- Noah Webster, of dictionary fame, offering a surprising definition of "equality"
- the true story of a fake declaration of independence "discovered" in Mecklenburg, North Carolina, in 1819
- searing challenges to the Declaration's philosophical claims by Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- radically divergent readings of the Declaration that contributed to the Civil War, and Abraham Lincoln's vision of a "new birth of freedom"
- the ways in which the Declaration inspired civil rights activists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
- how the Declaration inspired democratic aspirations globally.
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