America was built with pamphlets, not muskets
May 26, 2021
2 minutes
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? Thomas Jefferson is generally credited as its author, but Akhil Reed Amar believes there’s a better answer. “America did,” Amar argues in “The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840.”
Amar’s fresh and fascinating history focuses on the explosion of impassioned discourse that culminated in,
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