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    American Treasures: The Secret Efforts to Save the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address
    American Treasures: The Secret Efforts to Save the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address
    American Treasures: The Secret Efforts to Save the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address
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    American Treasures: The Secret Efforts to Save the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address

    Written by Stephen Puleo

    Narrated by Eric Michael Summerer

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    On December 26, 1941, Secret Service Agent Harry E. Neal stood on a platform at Washington's Union Station, watching a train chug off into the dark and feeling at once relieved and inexorably anxious. These were dire times: As Hitler's armies plowed across Europe, seizing or destroying the Continent's historic artifacts at will, Japan bristled to the East. The Axis was rapidly closing in.

    So FDR set about hiding the country's valuables. On the train speeding away from Neal sat four plain-wrapped cases containing the documentary history of American democracy: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, and more, guarded by a battery of agents and bound for safekeeping in the nation's most impenetrable hiding place.

    American Treasures charts the little-known journeys of these American crown jewels. From the risky and audacious adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to our modern Fourth of July celebrations, American Treasures shows how the ideas captured in these documents underscore the nation's strengths and hopes, and embody its fundamental values of liberty and equality.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateAug 30, 2016
    ISBN9781515977070
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    Stephen Puleo

    Stephen Puleo is a historian, teacher, public speaker, and the author of several books, including Voyage of Mercy, Dark Tide, American Treasures, and The Caning. A former award-winning newspaper reporter and contributor to American History magazine, the Boston Globe, and other publications, he holds a master's degree in history and has taught at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and Suffolk University. He and his wife, Kate, reside in the Boston area.

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