For liberty and equality
Subtitle: the life and times of the Declaration of independence
By: Alexander Tsesis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195379693
Subjects: Politics and government; United States; Philosophy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Becoming independent; title: The nation's infancy; title: Youthful republic; title: Compromising for the sake of expansion; title: Jacksonian era democracy; title: Subordination; title: The unraveling bonds of union; title: Sectional cataclysm; title: Reconstruction; title: Racial tensions; title: Advancing women's causes; title: The changing face of labor; title: International impact & domestic advance; title: The declaration in a New Deal state; title: Independence principles in the civil rights era; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix: The declaration of independence.