{"product_id":"book-yyu3","title":"Declaring Independence","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the beginning of 1776, virtually no one in the colonies was advocating independence: Americans based their grievances against Parliament on their rights as British subjects. By the end of 1776, independence was on every patriot's lips. The many tyrannies of a king had made an independent republic necessary. In \u003ci\u003eDeclaring Independence,\u003c\/i\u003e Edward J. Larson gives us a compact, insightful history of that pivotal year. He traces a narrative arc that runs from the inspiring appeals of Paine's \u003ci\u003eCommon Sense\u003c\/i\u003e in January; through the soaring ideals of midsummer, when the Continental Congress grounded independence in the self-evident truths of human equality and individual rights, and the states wove revolutionary principles of republican government and the rule of law into their new constitutions; to Paine's urgent pleas of December, when \"the times that try men's souls\" required Americans not \"to shrink from the service of their country.\" Dramatic military clashes also punctuate the year: the British evacuation of Boston forced by the brilliant maneuvers of Washington's Army; the Battle of Long Island, a costly defeat that opened New York to British occupation; and the desperate year-end victory of the American army at Trenton.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombined, these ideals and the sacrifices remind us why, on this anniversary and at this political moment, 1776 matters to all of us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Highbridge Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":50449275191600,"sku":"BDyyu3","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":50578501730608,"sku":"ZEyyu3","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":50578501763376,"sku":"ZMyyu3","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/yyu3-Square-cover.jpg?v=1779297715","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-yyu3","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}