Review: How a new generation of thinkers came to prioritize the pursuit of happiness
LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS: Britain and the American Dream. By Peter Moore. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 592 pages. $35.
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LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS: Britain and the American Dream. By Peter Moore. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 592 pages. $35.
Explore the origins of the most iconic words and concepts in American history with English historian Peter Moore. His spirited group biography provides a richer understanding our country’s colonial past and current ideology.<br/><br/>The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. “The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness” was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration. Then came a series of deletions and a long chain of revisions stretching across the Atlantic and back. In making these word...
Historian Peter Moore examines six Enlightenment thinkers who influenced Thomas Jefferson’s drafting of the Declaration of Independence.
Peter Moore chronicles the lives of Franklin and five of his British contemporaries who set the stage for The Declaration of Independence.
None of the delegates of the Second Continental Congress had any experience in "birthing a nation," but they were learning.