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Illustrating The Declaration

Not a lot of kids or adults just pick up the Declaration of Independence and read it. Written over 230 years ago, Thomas Jefferson's prose lacks the zip of twenty-first century Twitter feeds.

With the language so distant from our experience, it is hard to get back into the frame of mind that Jefferson and others were in when they decided to forsake British rule.

That's why Sam Fink's, book, an illustrated Declaration of Independence is so valuable.

It provides illustrations for each sentence, showing the long list of issues that drove Americans to declare their freedom.

Click here to view Sam Fink's Declaration of Independence on Amazon.

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