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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream
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Peter Moore
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John Lee
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June 2023
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17 hours 17 minutes
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The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. 'The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness' was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with 'the preservation of.' The precise contours of these three rights have never been pinned down-and yet in making these words into rights, Jefferson reified the hopes (and debates) not only of a group of rebel-statesmen but also of an earlier generation of British thinkers who could barely imagine a country like the United States of America.
Peter Moore's Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness tells the true story of what may be the most successful import in US history: the 'American dream.' Centered on the friendship between Benjamin Franklin and the British publisher William Strahan, and featuring figures including the cultural giant Samuel Johnson, the ground-breaking historian Catharine Macaulay, the firebrand politician John Wilkes, and revolutionary activist Thomas Paine, this book looks at the generation that preceded the Declaration in 1776. Everyone, it seemed, had 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' on their minds; Moore shows why, and reveals how these still-nascent ideals made their way across an ocean and started a revolution.
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