Kniha American Soul Justin Dyer

American Soul

The Contested Legacy of the Declaration of Independence

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Pevná
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The Declaration of Independence has been the subject of competing interpretations since its adoption...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydáno
2011
Stránek
176
EAN
9781442211469
ISBN
1442211466
Enbook ID
05076663
Hmotnost
422
Rozměry
163 x 239 x 18

Kompletní popis

The Declaration of Independence has been the subject of competing interpretations since its adoption by the Continental Congress on the Fourth of July 1776, and for nearly two and a half centuries the political ideas expressed in its preamble have inspired reform movements both at home and abroad. From the early debates on the nature of the American Republic to abolitionism, progressivism, the civil rights movement, and contemporary debates about American economic and foreign policy, the Declaration is, as it has been, a vibrant and dynamic, though perennially disputed, source of American ideals. The present volume brings together a variety of speeches and writings related to the contested meaning and legacy of the Declaration of Independence, and the various documents assembled together demonstrate how competing interpretations of the Declaration have shaped, and been shaped by, political conflict in America. The Declaration is perhaps our "national soul," as Charles Sumner wrote in 1860, but Americans have rarely spoken of it with one voice. American Soul: The Contested Legacy of the Declaration of Independence paints, with broad strokes, a picture of the debates that have shaped a nation.

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