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Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence - Hardcover

Parkinson, Robert G.

 
9781324124542: Tyrants and Rogues: Understanding the Declaration of Independence
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1324124547 ISBN 13: 9781324124542
Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

For the 250 years since it was written and proclaimed to the world, the Declaration of Independence, and the words of its preamble―“all men are created equal”, “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”―have animated those striving for freedom around the world. Yet as Robert G. Parkinson shows, the men who wrote the Declaration did not view the preamble as the important part; rather, it was the list of grievances that they spent their time labouring over. Here they identified the tyrants and rogues who oppressed the colonists, and eventually waged war on them, inflamed slave revolts, forced them to fight against their countrymen and more. Parkinson gives us the Declaration anew―and in the process opens up an expansive view of the contingency of the Revolutionary moment, showing that the patriots were not so much philosophers as they were politicians and war-makers.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert G. Parkinson is professor of history at Binghamton University. He is the author of The Common Cause and Thirteen Clocks. He lives in Charles Town, West Virginia.

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Verlag
WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1324124547
ISBN 13 
9781324124542
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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