Description: "Examines the evolving significance of the US Declaration of Independence, analyzing its dual role as both a local and universal document used for liberatory purposes as well as a warrant for both regressive and progressive politics, while questioning its relevance as its 250th anniversary approaches"-- Provided by publisher.
Review Quotes:
"These essays do more than valorize the US Declaration of Independence, they unfold its rhetorical character, probing its rhetorical and political affordances, as well as its gaps, blindnesses, and omissions. Peeling back layers of well-meaning mythology, the essays provide a balanced reckoning with a document that has shaped discourse, inside and outside the United States, for the last 250 years."
--William M. Keith, coauthor of Beyond Civility: The Competing Obligations of Citizenship