Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
- ISBN-10
- 0385542836
- ISBN-13
- 9780385542838
- Series
- Inventing America
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 398
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-02-15
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Garry Wills
Description
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)
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