A History of Hope
Subtitle: When Americans Have Dared to Dream of a Better Future
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: April 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781403966001
Subjects: History - U.S.; Biography & Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; General; United States - General; Biography & Autobiography / General
First sentence: ON A BEAUTIFUL FRIDAY MORNING in Philadelphia, June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee, a delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia, concluded his speech to the assembly with a motion: Resolved . . . that these United Colonies are, and of a right ought to be, free and independent states, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.