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From one of America's foremost historians, Inventing America compares Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence with the final, accepted version, thereby challenging many long-cherished assumptions about both the man and the document. Although Jefferson has long been idealized as a champion of individual rights, Wills argues that in fact his vision was one in which interdependence, not self-interest, lay at the foundation of society.
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"No one has offered so drastic a revision or so close or convincing an analysis as Wills has...The results are little short of astonishing."
-- Edmund S. Morgan The New York Review of Books
"The best and most thorough analysis of the Declaration ever written."
--David Brion Davis, The New York Times Book Review
About the Author:
-- Edmund S. Morgan The New York Review of Books
"The best and most thorough analysis of the Declaration ever written."
--David Brion Davis, The New York Times Book Review
Garry Wills is an adjunct professor of history at Northwestern University.
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- PublisherBuccaneer Books
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 1568495366
- ISBN 13 9781568495361
- BindingHardcover
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