Why freedom matters
Subtitle: the spirit of the Declaration of Independence in prose, poetry, and song from 1776 to the present
By: edited by Daniel R. Katz.
Contributors: Katz, Daniel R.
Publisher: Workman Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
Subjects: United States; Liberty -- History -- Sources; Democracy -- United States -- History -- Sources; American prose literature; American poetry; Songs -- United States; United States -- History -- Sources; United States -- Politics and government -- Sources; United States -- Literary collections
Genres: Sources.; Literary collections.
Description: Why Freedom Matters celebrates freedom in over 100 speeches, letters, essays, poems, and songs, all infused with the spirit of democracy. Here are the voices of presidents and slaves, founding fathers and hip-hop artists, suffragettes, civil rights workers, preachers, labor leaders, and baseball players. Inspired by the Declaration of Independence, the book is published in conjunction with The Declaration of Independence Road Trip, a 3 1/2-year cross-country educational tour of an extremely rare, original hand-printed copy of the Declaration. The Declaration of Independence Road Trip's mission is to energize Americans by bringing our founding document to towns small and large across the country. Like the document itself, this compelling anthology reveals America's soul as it wrestles with questions of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and strives to fulfill the ideals of Thomas Jefferson's words.
Notes: Includes index.