Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality - Couverture souple

Allen, Professor Danielle

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1631490443 ISBN 13 : 9781631490446

Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2015

Synopsis

Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship reveals our nation's founding text to be an animating force that not only changed the world more than two-hundred years ago, but also still can. Challenging conventional wisdom, she boldly makes the case that the Declaration is a document as much about political equality as about individual liberty. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Our Declaration is an "uncommonly elegant, incisive, and often poetic primer on America's cardinal text" (David M. Kennedy).

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and the author of Cuz and Our Declaration, winner of the Parkman Prize. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1631490443
• ISBN 13: 9781631490446
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible