Our Declaration
Danielle Allen
Our Declaration has come to be regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration and with over a decade of hindsight, renowned political philosopher Danielle Allen recontextualizes her revelatory book with a stunning new foreword. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen reveals our nation's founding text as not a catechism to be memorized but an animating force that can and did change the world. Challenging conventional wisdom, Allen finds "new meaning in Jefferson's understanding of equality," boldly making 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.
Buy this book at AmazonAd- Publisher
- Liveright
- Year
- 2014
- ISBN-13
- 9780871408136
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Declaration of IndependenceAmerican foundingPolitical equality
Awards
- PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionShortlisted(2015)
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