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American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence.
National Review
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September 15, 1997|
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American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence, by Pauline Maier (Knopf, 352 pp., $27.50)
Mr. Hill is an emeritus professor of political science at Marietta College.
PAULINE Maier is an American historian who does not disdain the office of storyteller to the American people. She tells here a story she rightly thinks worth telling: how in the year following Lexington and Concord the Continental Congress moved to the decision to fight for national independence; how Americans supported and explained the decision in more than ninety "other declarations of ...
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