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The Paper That Started a Country : The Story of Independence Day
Overview
In the summer of 1776, in a rented upstairs room in Philadelphia, a young man wrote a paper explaining why a country was going to stop belonging to a king. Fifty-six men signed it, knowing exactly what the punishment for signing was if it did not work. A printer named John Dunlap stayed up all night making copies so that the rest of the country could find out what had been decided. This is what that paper actually said, what it left out, and what Americans have argued about every year since - including the one sentence that has done more work than any other in the language. Somebody has to write it down. Somebody has to carry it.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798952854086
- ISBN-10: 9798952854086
- Publisher: Jeffersonian Institute of America
- Publish Date: October 2026
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 8.5 x 0.25 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.66 pounds
- Page Count: 26
- Reading Level: Ages 7-12
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