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<p><P><b><i>The cultural and political history of the Pledge of Allegiance, how it came to be, what it means to Americans, and why we have battled over it for generations <P></b></i>On a summer evening in Boston in the year 1892, a thirtyseven- year-old former clergyman named Francis Bellamy sat down at his desk and began to write&#58; <i>&#8220;I Pledge allegiance to my flag&#8230;&#8221; </i>Neither Bellamy nor anyone else could have imagined at the time that the single twenty-three-word sentence that emerged would evolve into one of our most familiar patriotic texts. <P>Who could have suspected, though, that the simple flag salute would become a lightning rod for bitter controversy? Congress&#8217; 1954 decision to add &#8220;under God&#8221; to the Pledge has made it the focus of three U.S. Supreme Court cases and at least one other landmark appellate decision. The debate continues today, but along with it exists a widely held admiration and support for this simple affirmation of our shared patriotism. <P>As Jeffrey Jones and Peter Meyer show in their illuminating history, this brief salute to the flag has had an almost magical power to galvanize people&#8217;s deepest feelings

Author

Jones, Jeffrey Owen; Meyer, Peter, 1950-

Publisher

New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781429980791

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences

Rating

3.31 / 5 (26 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13