Wch Decl of Independence

This is the best available general resource about the Declaration of Independence written for young people. It contains a great deal of detail about how the declaration came about, where its ideas originated, who signed it and when, and its impact on later generations. The book is extremely well-documented with footnotes and also has a useful bibliography. The book should be avaialble at most libraries and will be an excellent resource for junior high school and high school students writing reports.

I never knew there was so much to know about the Declaration of Independence until I read this book. Nardo does a great job of telling how the document came about and gives a lot of information about Jefferson and where he got the ideas for writing the Declaration. Also included are numerous small but interesting facts and tidbits, like that not all the founding fathers signed the document at the same time, like they show so often in the movies and TV. My son brought this home to do a report and I picked it up and to take a quick look at it and then I couldn't put it down.