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Inventing the American Flag - How the Stars and Stripes Was Woven from Symbols (Hardcover)
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Inventing the American Flag - How the Stars and Stripes Was Woven from Symbols (Hardcover)
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A treasure hunt for the hidden meaning of the symbols that appear
on America's beloved national flag. "The best book on the American
flag's origins. . . No one knows the ins and outs of the origins of
the flag of the United States as well as Henry Moeller does. . .
Highly recommended." --Marc Leepson, author of Flag: An American
Biography With gorgeous four-color reproductions of an amazing
array of art from diverse cultures and eras, Inventing the American
Flag explores the symbolism of the flag and investigates why the
founding fathers chose the images they did to represent the new
nation. Art history sleuth Henry W. Moeller brings a breath of
fresh air to our appreciation of the flag, blowing away the cobwebs
left by antiquarians fixated on dusty records and Masonic
conspiracies. Inventing the American Flag weaves together exotic
and colorful strands of history to offer a new understanding of the
forces that contributed to the flag flown by America's
revolutionaries. Henry W. Moeller's forty-year journey into the
history of the symbols on America's early flags took him to
libraries, museums, and private collections around the world. The
deeper he dug, the further back in time he went. He pored over
explorers' maps, medieval manuscripts, astronomers' charts, and
ancient myths. Gradually, he was able to piece together the
remarkable, constantly surprising, and often inspiring story of
how, beginning in classical times, the stars and stripes acquired
new meanings and were put to new uses until, at the birth of our
nation, they became the symbols of that nation itself.
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