Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas

by Carl L. Becker

Overview

The Declaration of Independence

Carl L. Becker's important study is an analysis of the concepts expressed in the Declaration. Here is a lucid explanation of what the Declaration really is, what views it sets forth, where those views arose, and how they have been accepted or modified by succeeding generations. A book that every American should read.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780394700601
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/28/1958
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Carl L. Becker, born in Lincoln Township, Iowa, in 1873, was Professor of History at Cornell University from 1917 to 1941. Educated at Cornell College, Iowa, at the University of Wisconsin, and at Columbia, he taught at Pennsylvania State, Dartmouth, and the universities of Kansas and Minnesota before going to Cornell. He died in Ithaca, New York, in 1945. His books include Progress and Power (1936), How New Will the Better World Be? (1944), and Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life (1945).