This paper is a book report on the book Thirteen Clocks by Robert G. Parkinson. Begin the book review with the following three sentences and follow the book review essay guidelines that have been uploaded.
Robert G. Parkinson’s book, Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made The Declaration of Independence, suggests – as the title states – that race was the unifying factor that created the Declaration of Independence. Parkinson argues this claim through various key ideas, however, chiefly among those ideas is that the use of print gave way to the creation of a “common cause”. Specifically, Parkinson states that “there was no common cause without print.”
