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To the flag
the unlikely history of the pledge of allegiance
By Ellis, Richard
- ISBN
- 978-0-70061-372-4
- Publisher
- Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 15, 2005
Ellis (Mark O. Hatfield Professor of Politics, Willamette Univ.) has written a thoughtful, thorough history of America's most revered patriotic mantra, which was borne out of the anxiety and fear of large-scale immigration at the turn of the 19th century. The author of the Pledge of Allegiance was Francis Bellamy, a pastor with Christian Socialist convictions who created the 23-word poem for a nationwide school celebration in honor of Columbus Day. According to Ellis, Bellamy's motives were to stress the need for self-sacrifice during the Gilded Age and to offer the new...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
