American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence Brochura - 1998
por Pauline Maier
Drawing upon dozens of other "declarations of independence" written to protest the repression of the colonies by King George III, as well as carefully analyzing the drafts of the Declaration signed on July 4, 1776, Maier reveals the extent to which Jefferson's words and ideas were indebted to popular political beliefs.
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THE DELEGATES' LONG, slow journey from Massachussetts to Pennsylvania need not have been made.
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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 Continental Congress into a national government, unlike anything that preceded or followed it, and with more authority than the colonists would ever have conceded to the British Parliament; the great difficulty in making the decision for Independence; the influence of Paine's "Common Sense, which shifted the terms of debate; and the political maneuvers that allowed Congress to make the momentous decision.
In Maier's hands, the Declaration of Independence is brought close to us. She lets us hear the voice of the people as revealed in the other "declarations" of 1776: the local resolutions -- most of which have gone unnoticed over the past two centuries -- that explained, advocated, and justified Independence and undergirded Congress's work. Detective-like, she discloses the origins of key ideas and phrases in the Declaration and unravels the complex story of its drafting and of the group-editing job which angered Thomas Jefferson.
Maier also reveals what happened to the Declaration after the signing and celebration: how it was largely forgotten and then revived to buttress political arguments of the nineteenth century; and, most important, how Abraham Lincoln ensured its persistence as a living force in Americansociety. Finally, she shows how by the very act of venerating the Declaration as we do -- by holding it as sacrosanct, akin to holy writ -- we may actually be betraying its purpose and its power.
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- Título American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
- Autor Pauline Maier
- Encadernação Brochura
- Edição [ Edition: Repri
- Páginas 336
- Volumes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Data de publicação May 26, 1998
- ISBN 9780679779087 / 0679779086
- Peso 0.55 libras (0.25 kg)
- Dimensão 8.04 x 5.32 x 0.73 in. (20.42 x 13.51 x 1.85 cm)
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Temas
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Library of Congress subjects United States, United States - Politics and government -
- Número da Biblioteca do Congresso dos Estados Unidos 97002769
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.313
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- New York Times, 07/05/1998, Page 20
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