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Louis Anastasius Tarascon To His Fellow Citizens Of The United States Of America

Louis Anastasius Tarascon To His Fellow Citizens Of The United States Of America

Louis Anastasius Tarascon

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Alpha Editions
Año de edición:
2021
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Política y gobierno
ISBN:
9789354540868
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A lone voice addresses a young republic - and the whole human family at once. Urgent, plain-spoken, unsettling. Read it, then argue back.Louis Anastasius Tarascon To His Fellow Citizens Of The United States Of America is a political pamphlet cast as an open letter tract: part civic address essay, part moral challenge. Speaking from within nineteenth century America and its fiercely contested public sphere, Tarascon presses on first principles - what citizenship should mean, what a democracy owes its people, and how american citizenship ideals can be widened into universal human rights. The result is a vivid public document: not a polished treatise, but a working piece of persuasion shaped by early United States politics, where the stakes of belonging, representation, and responsibility were immediate and personal.Historically, the pamphlet sits in the long shadow of thomas paine pamphlets and other enlightenment republican writings, carrying their appetite for argument and their belief that civic life can be remade. As a public domain primary source in a complete text edition, it offers modern readers a bracing encounter with democratic civic reform as it was demanded in real time - not as a lesson, but as a call. Casual readers will find a sharp, compact provocation; classic-literature collectors will value its rarity and its place in the wider record of American political print culture. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today’s and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector’s item and a cultural treasure.

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