Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (SIGNED)

Danielle S. Allen

ISBN 10: 087140690X / ISBN 13: 9780871406903

Verlag: Liveright, 2014

Beschreibung

Hardcover. First Edition, first printing. As new copy in like dust jacket, mylar protected. Signed by Author on title page.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 10213

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (SIGNED)
• Verlag: Liveright
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 087140690X
• ISBN-13: 9780871406903
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: As New
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New
• Signiert: Signed by Author(s)
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Important Nonfiction

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Inhaltsangabe

Troubled by the fact that so few Americans actually know what it says, Danielle Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship, set out to explore the arguments of the Declaration, reading it with both adult night students and University of Chicago undergraduates. Keenly aware that the Declaration is riddled with contradictions liberating some while subjugating slaves and Native Americans Allen and her students nonetheless came to see that the Declaration makes a coherent and riveting argument about equality. They found not a historical text that required memorization, but an animating force that could and did transform the course of their everyday lives.Our DeclarationtheirOur DeclarationOur Declaration

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At once simple, sharp and deftly executed. "