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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Author’s Note
Prologue
Part I. Early 1941
1: “It Is Natural that Men Should Value the Original Documents”
Part II. 1776
2: “We Hold These Truths…”
3: “The Unanimous Declaration”
Part III. 1941
4: “The Preservation of National Morale”
Part IV. 1787–1791
5: “Suspended Upon a Single Hair”
6: “Our Doors Will Be Shut”
7: “That a National Government Ought to Be Established”
8: “We Are Now at a Full Stop”
9: “The People Are the King”
10: “Approaching So Near to Perfection…”
11: “Tis Done!… We Have Become a Nation”
Part V. 1941
12: “A Place of Greater Safety”
Part VI. 1814
13: “Take the Best Care of the Books and Papers…”
14: “Such Destruction—Such Confusion…”
Part VII. 1942
15: “The Library of Congress Goes to War”
Part VIII. 1826–1860
16: “I Had Flattered Myself that He Would Survive the Summer”
17: “No Government upon the Earth Is So Safe as Ours”
Part IX. 1942–1943
18: “Are You Satisfied We Have Taken All Reasonable Precautions?”
19: “He Loved Peace and He Loved Liberty”
Part X. 1860–1924
20: “Four Score and Seven Years Ago…”
21: “Of the People, by the People, for the People…”
22: “The Instrument Has Suffered Very Seriously”
23: “Touch Any Aspect of the Address, and You Touch a Mystery”
Part XI. 1944
24: “Nothing that Men Have Ever Made Surpasses Them”
Part XII. 1952
25: “They Are Not Important as Manuscripts, They Are Important As THEMSELVES”
26: “The National Archives Will Not Forget”
27: “Symbols of Power that Can Move the World”
Epilogue
Bibliographic Essay
Acknowledgments
Photographs
Index
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