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Title: Our own origins, seen through the keyhole of the Declaration
Review: I love the sheer surprise this books brings. It holds a mirror up to US, the contemporaries, madly trying to make myths and theme parks of our own heritage. Maier starts off by touring us right past the physical document of the Declaration, holy of holies, on display like an icon guarded by witch-priests in uniforms. She has no sympathy for this attitude of reverence; in fact, you feel that she might have a good belly laugh over the whole enshrinement, if she weren't feeling so disgusted by it.What's truly interesting is the tour this author takes us on of just where the Declaration came from. Tracing similar words and phrases and whole passages to state and local declarations of the time, she shows us the whole climate of belief the famous framers of the Declaration were working in. This book is really fascinating, I think: a great and surprising portrait of who we really were.And of what we have become
