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02933aam a2200373 i 4500 001 DB5AA15AFD8311E69D83C688DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170228010127 007 n 008 160520s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1515907074 020 $a 9781515907077 040 $d IaOe $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Puleo, Stephen,. 245 10 $a American treasures $h [Audiobook] : $b the secret efforts to save the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Gettysburg Address / $c Stephen Puleo. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b St. Martin's Press, $c 2016. 300 $a 10 audio disks ; $c 4 1/2 inch discs. 520 2 $a "On December 26, 1941, Secret Service Agent Harry E. Neal stood on a platform at Washington's Union Station, watching a train chug off into the dark and feeling at once relieved and inexorably anxious. These were dire times: as Hitler's armies plowed across Europe, seizing or destroying the Continent's historic artifacts at will, Japan bristled to the East. The Axis was rapidly closing in. So FDR set about hiding the country's valuables. On the train speeding away from Neal sat four plain-wrapped cases containing the documentary history of American democracy: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, and more, guarded by a battery of agents and bound for safekeeping in the nation's most impenetrable hiding place. American Treasures charts the little-known journeys of these American crown jewels. From the risky and audacious adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 to our modern Fourth of July celebrations, American Treasures shows how the ideas captured in these documents underscore the nation's strengths and hopes, and embody its fundamental values of liberty and equality. Stephen Puleo weaves in exciting stories of freedom under fire--from the Declaration and Constitution smuggled out of Washington days before the British burned the capital in 1814, to their covert relocation during WWII--crafting a sweeping history of a nation united to preserve its definition of democracy"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20161021. 600 10 $a Lincoln, Abraham, $d 1809-1865. $t Gettysburg address. 610 10 $a United States. $t Declaration of independence. 610 10 $a United States $t Constitution. 650 0 $a Democracy. $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Historic preservation $x History. $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Hiding places $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Manuscripts $x History. $z United States $x History. 651 0 $a United States. $x History $v Sources. 651 4 $a United States $x History. $x Collection and preservation $x History. 651 0 $a United States $x Sources. $x Sources. 700 $a Summerer, Eric Michael. 941 $a 1 952 $l VKPE334 $d 20170228012551.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DB5AA15AFD8311E69D83C688DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search