by Dumas Malone, with pictures by Hirst Milhollen and Milton Kaplan. Oxford University Press. 282 pp. $10.
With an abundance of text and pictures, planned and arranged with excellent taste, the authors present their tribute to the great document itself. There is a remarkable presentation of portraits of all of the signers and pictures of their homes; certainly, this is the last word on this subject.
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