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Declaring Independence - Why 1776 Matters (Hardcover)
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Declaring Independence - Why 1776 Matters (Hardcover)
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On the 250th anniversary of American independence, with the history of
our founding a political battleground, this study of the ideas and
battlefield sacrifices of 1776 by a Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar
could not be more timely.
At the beginning of 1776, virtually no one in the colonies was
advocating independence: Americans based their grievances against
Parliament on their rights as British subjects. By the end of 1776,
independence was on every patriot’s lips. The many tyrannies of a king
had made an independent republic necessary. In Declaring Independence,
Edward J. Larson gives us a compact, insightful history of that pivotal
year. He traces a narrative arc that runs from the inspiring appeals of
Paine’s Common Sense in January; through the soaring ideals of
midsummer, when the Continental Congress grounded independence in the
self-evident truths of human equality and individual rights, and the
states wove revolutionary principles of republican government and the
rule of law into their new constitutions; to Paine’s urgent pleas of
December, when “the times that try men’s souls” required Americans not
“to shrink from the service of their country.” Dramatic military
clashes also punctuate the year: the British evacuation of Boston
forced by the brilliant maneuvers of Washington’s Army; the Battle of
Long Island, a costly defeat that opened New York to British
occupation; and the desperate year-end victory of a threadbare American
army at Trenton.
Combined, these ideals and the sacrifices remind us why, on this
anniversary and at this political moment, 1776 matters to all of us.
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