Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, where she is also the principal investigator for the Democratic Knowledge Project. Among her many books, she is the author of Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality and, most recently, coeditor of Difference without Domination: Pursuing Justice in Diverse Democracies, the latter also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Scrutinizing our founding document, Allen sees it as a clarion call for equality. * New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice, on Our Declaration * Remarkable. . . . A tour de force. * New York Review of Books, on Our Declaration * A primer on all that we have been missing. . . . Invaluable. * Washington Post, on Our Declaration *