[Read free ebook] American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
• Pauline Maier •
| #96126 in Books | 1998-05-26 | 1998-05-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.97 x.72 x5.17l,.55 | File Name: 0679779086 | 336 pages
||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Good for the home library|By Andrew Czernek|Excellent description of the emergence of the Declaration of Independence -- including the politics of the time. Shows all of the human frailties, especially those of memory when Adams and Jefferson are asked to describe how the Declaration was written. Maier shows the changes made in Jefferson's drafts and what may be th|.com |This is a well-written, well-researched, entertaining account of the creation of the United States' Declaration of Independence as well as an analysis of how the declaration has been enshrined as something of a sacred document (a place it did not alway
Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be -- from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans arrived at Independence to the ways in which, in the nineteenth century, the document itself became sanctified.
Maier describes the transformation of the Second Co...
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence | Pauline Maier.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
