Winner of the Zócalo Book Prize
Shortlisted for the 2015 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians
“Danielle Allen lays bare the Declaration’s history and significance, returning it to its true and rightful owners—you and me.”—Junot DíazMore
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians
“A tour de force. . . . No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.”—Gordon Wood, New York Review of BooksMore
So tender yet courageous is this fierce family memoir that it makes mass incarceration nothing less than a new American tragedy.More
“An elegiac memoir and social jeremiad,” Cuz is “a literary and political event like Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark” (Henry Louis Gates Jr.).More