The Pledge: A History of the Pledge of Allegiance

Thomas Dunne Books
2010

By Jeffrey Owen Jones ’66 and Peter Meyer. 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 it for generations.

*Jeffrey Owen Jones passed away in 2007.

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