Professor Ed Larson's Book, Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters, Reviewed in Minnesota Star Tribune

Professor Edward J. Larson's book, Declaring Independence: Why 1776 Matters, is reviewed in the Minnesota Star Tribune article, "Five Books We Can’t Wait to Read in November."

From the Minnesota Star Tribune:

Declaring Independence, Edward J. Larson

Get ready for a million books about 1776, in anticipation of our country’s 250th birthday next year. This one, from a Pulitzer Prize winner (for his brilliant book about the Scopes monkey trial, “Summer for the Gods”), focuses narrowly on that pivotal year. Larson traces the events that took the Founding Fathers from barely thinking about the idea of independence in January to declaring it just a few months later. Subtitled “Why 1776 Matters,” the book also argues that July wasn’t an open-and-shut declaration, with the following months producing lots of colonial handwringing. (Nov. 11)