{"product_id":"declaring-independence-by-edward-j-larson-9781324078975","title":"Declaring Independence","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt the beginning of 1776, virtually no one in the colonies was advocating independence: Americans based their grievances against Parliament on their rights as British subjects. By the end of 1776, independence was on every patriot's lips. The many tyrannies of a king had made an independent republic necessary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eDeclaring Independence\u003c\/em\u003e, Edward J. Larson gives us a compact, insightful history of that pivotal year. He traces a narrative arc that runs from the inspiring appeals of Paine's \u003cem\u003eCommon Sense\u003c\/em\u003e in January; through the soaring ideals of midsummer, when the Continental Congress grounded independence in the self-evident truths of human equality and individual rights, and the states wove revolutionary principles of republican government and the rule of law into their new constitutions; to Paine's urgent pleas of December, when \"the times that try men's souls\" required Americans not \"to shrink from the service of their country.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDramatic military clashes also punctuate the year: the British evacuation of Boston forced by the brilliant manoeuvres of Washington's Army; the Battle of Long Island, a costly defeat that opened New York to British occupation; and the desperate year-end victory of a threadbare American army at Trenton.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCombined, these ideals and the sacrifices remind us why, on this anniversary and at this political moment, 1776 matters to all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46102287712429,"sku":"9781324078975","price":26.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0751\/8493\/0989\/files\/11474143482659.jpg?v=1781147726","url":"https:\/\/norlato.com\/products\/declaring-independence-by-edward-j-larson-9781324078975","provider":"norlato","version":"1.0","type":"link"}