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The Liberty Bell Gary B. Nash

The Liberty Bell By Gary B. Nash

The Liberty Bell by Gary B. Nash


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Summary

Since its original casting in England in 1751, the Liberty Bell has survived a precarious journey on the road to becoming a symbol of the American identity. A cultural history rooted in detailed research, this book explores the impetus behind the bell's creation, as well as its evolutions in meaning through successive generations.

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The Liberty Bell by Gary B. Nash

Each year, more than two million visitors line up near Philadelphia's Independence Hall and wait to gaze upon a flawed mass of metal forged more than two and a half centuries ago. Since its original casting in England in 1751, the Liberty Bell has survived a precarious journey on the road to becoming a symbol of the American identity, and in this masterful work, Gary B. Nash reveals how and why this voiceless bell continues to speak such volumes about our nation. Drawing upon fascinating primary source documents, Nash's book continues a remarkable dialogue about a symbol of American patriotism second only in importance to the Stars and Stripes. "It is an unlikely central character for a book: A silent, 250-year-old bell. Yet in The Liberty Bell, a biography of our nation's 'nearly sacred totem,' Gary B. Nash provides a stirring historical account of the icon that is America's 'Rosetta Stone or . . . Holy Grail.'"-T. Rees Shapiro, Washington Post "It's broken, and silent, and brimming with significance, and the eminent UCLA historian tells the bell's rich, captivating story."-Los Angeles magazine

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"It is an unlikely central character for a book: a silent, 250-year-old bell. Yet in The Liberty Bell, a biography of our nation's 'nearly sacred totem', Gary B. Nash provides a stirring historical account of the icon that is America's 'Rosetta Stone or... Holy Grail.'" (T. Rees Shapiro, Washington Post)"

About Gary B. Nash

Gary B. Nash is professor of history and director of the National Center for History in the Schools at UCLA. He is former president of the Organization of American Historians, and his 1979 book The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history. He lives in Los Angeles.

Additional information

GOR013595300
9780300171426
0300171420
The Liberty Bell by Gary B. Nash
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Yale University Press
2011-03-08
256
N/A
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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