American Scripture : Making the Declaration of Independence

Maier, Pauline

ISBN 10: 0679454926 / ISBN 13: 9780679454922

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

Title: American Scripture : Making the Declaration ...

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication Date: 1997

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Edition: 1st.

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Synopsis:

A history professor reveals the origins of the Declaration's ideas and phrases, unravels the story of its drafting, follows its role in the nineteenth century, and explores the implications of its treatment as a sacred text. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

About the Author:

Pauline Maier was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.  She received her B.A. from Radcliffe College in 1960, was a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of Economics in 1960-61, and took her Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1968.  She has taught at Harvard, the University of Massachusetts (Boston), University of Wisconsin, Yale University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she has been William R. Kenan, Junior, Professor of American History since 1990.  She is the author of From Resistance to Revolution, The Old Revolutionaries, and The American People: A History, a single-authored text for junior high school, as well as numerous other articles and reviews.