Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters

At the beginning of 1776, virtually no one in the colonies was advocating independence: Americans based their...
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Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters by Larson, Edward J.

Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters

$29.99

Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters

$29.99
Author: Edward J. Larson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

At 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. In Declaring Independence, 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 Common Sense 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." Dramatic military clashes also punctuate the year: the British evacuation of Boston forced by the brilliant maneuvers 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.

Combined, these ideals and the sacrifices remind us why, on this anniversary and at this political moment, 1776 matters to all of us.



Author: Edward J. Larson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/11/2025
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781324078975


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2025 pg. 11
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2025

About the Author
Larson, Edward J.: - Edward J. Larson is the author of many acclaimed works of history, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Scopes trial, Summer for the Gods, and the recent study of liberty and slavery at the founding, American Inheritance. A chaired professor of history and law at Pepperdine University, Larson lives with his family near Los Angeles.

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