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The Living Declaration: A Biography Of AmericaS Founding Text
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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 60 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 SelfEvident . . . 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 NationS Story Began, The Declaration Of Independence, To Trace The Remarkable History Of How Our National Charter 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 AmericansRadicals And Conservatives, Civil War Combatants And Civil Rights Leaders, Presidents And PhilosophersThe Key To Understanding The Extraordinary Durability Of AmericaS 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 DeclarationS Philosophical Claims By Frederick Douglass And Elizabeth Cady Stanton Radically Divergent Readings Of The Declaration That Contributed To The Civil War, And Abraham LincolnS Vision Of A New Birth Of Freedom The Ways In Which The Declaration Inspired Civil Rights Activists In The Twentieth And TwentyFirst Centuries How The Declaration Inspired Democratic Aspirations Globally.The Voices Gathered Here Are Impassioned, And Though Often At Odds, All Are United In The Belief That The Declaration Reveals Something Crucial About The American People And The Quest For Human Freedom. As We Mark The 250Th Anniversary Of Our Independence, The Living Declaration Encourages Us To Look Anew At A Vital American Text Whose History Is Still Unfolding.
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