Beautifully illustrated throughout, Our Declaration is an “uncommonly elegant, incisive, and often poetic primer on America’s cardinal text” (David M. Challenging conventional wisdom, she boldly makes the case that the Declaration is a document as much about political equality as about individual liberty. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 17, Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship reveals our nation’s founding text to be an animating force that not only changed the world more than two-hundred years ago, but also still can. Shortlisted for the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Ralph Waldo Emerson AwardĪ New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Selectionįeatured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Shortlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Winner of the Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize (Nonfiction)įinalist for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Hurston Wright Legacy Award Winner of the Society of American Historians’ Francis Parkman Prize No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.” -Gordon Wood, New York Review of Books
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