Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence

Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence - Paperback

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Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence - Paperback

Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence - Paperback

by Garry Wills
$22.00
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by Garry Wills (Author)

From acclaimed historian Garry Wills, author of Lincoln at Gettysburg, a celebrated re-appraisal of the meaning and the source of inspiration of The Declaration of Independence, based on a reading of Jefferson's original draft document.

Inventing America upended decades of thinking about The Declaration of Independence when it was first published in 1978 and remains one of the most influential and important works of scholarship about this founding document. Wills challenged the idea that Jefferson took all his ideas from John Locke. Instead, by focussing on Jefferson's original drafts, he showed Jefferson's debt to Scottish Enlightenment philosophers such as Lord Kames and Francis Hutcheson, and even the metaphysics of Aristotle. Wills's close reading of the previously overlooked drafts of the Declaration have altered and deepened the meaning and consequences of the single most important document that contintues to define America.

Author Biography

Garry Wills is a historian and the author of the New York Times bestsellers What Jesus Meant, Papal Sin, Why I Am a Catholic, and Why Priests?, among others. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and other publications, Wills is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor emeritus at Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Number of Pages: 432
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8 x 5.3 IN
Publication Date: January 02, 2018
ISBN9780525435976
Author Garry Wills
PublisherVintage
GenreNews & politics, History, and Philosophy
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 2018
LanguageENG- English
Pages432
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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