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MAIER, PAULINE.
AMERICAN SCRIPTURE.
NEW YORK :
ALFRED A. KNOPF,
1997.
304 PAGES :
HARDBACK.
PAULINE MAIER SHOWS US THE DECLARATION AS BOTH THE DEFINING STATEMENT OF OUR NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE MORAL STANDARD BY WHICH WE LIVE AS A NATION. IT IS TRULY "AMERICAN SCRIPTURE," AND MAIER TELLS US HOW IT CAME TO BE-- FROM THE DECLARATION'S BIRTH IN THE HARD AND TORTUOUS STRUGGLE BY WHICH AMERICANS ARRIVED AT INDEPENDENCE TO THE WAYS IN WHICH, IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, THE DOCUMENT ITSELF BECAME SANCTIFIED.
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