American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Item #2055206
ISBN: 0679454926
Book club edition. Minimal wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked.
xxi, 304 pp. 8vo. Appendices, notes, and index follow text. 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.
Price: $12.00