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Inventing America : Jefferson's Declaration of Independence by Garry Wills (1979, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100394727355

ISBN-139780394727356

eBay Product ID (ePID)1386277

Product Key Features

Book TitleInventing America : Jefferson's Declaration of Independence

Number of Pages398 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1979

TopicUnited States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)

IllustratorYes

GenreNon-Classifiable, History

AuthorGarry Wills

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight13.7 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN78-011212

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"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

Dewey Decimal973.3/13

SynopsisFrom 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 ).