00968cam a2200205 4500 55699252 TxAuBib 19991117120000.0 991117s1997||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 97-2769 9780679454922 27.50 0679454926 27.50 TxAuBib 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. 19991117.