The Declaration as document and ideal
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The Declaration as document and ideal
Michael Auslin traces the Declaration of Independence through two intertwined histories: the making and afterlife of its words, and the changing fortunes of the parchment itself. From Jefferson’s drafting, with revisions by Benjamin Franklin, the account follows the document through wartime upheaval, periods of neglect, public display and preservation. It also examines how people with sharply different causes and politics—including Lincoln and Jefferson Davis—claimed its principles, while reproductions carried it into classrooms and popular culture. The book connects these episodes to a larger question raised in its description: how a founding statement of ideals has been used across generations, and what role it might play in a divided nation.
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