Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality

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)."

Author: Danielle Allen
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 05/04/2015
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781631490446

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