Inventing America
Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States
| Author: | Garry Wills | ISBN: | 9780385542838 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | February 15, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Vintage | Language: | English |
| Author: | Garry Wills |
| ISBN: | 9780385542838 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication: | February 15, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Language: | English |
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.
"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, New York Review of Books)
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.
"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, New York Review of Books)
