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Inventing America - by Garry Wills (Paperback)

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  • 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.
  • About the Author: 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?
  • 432 Pages
  • History, United States

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About the Book



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.



Book Synopsis



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.



Review Quotes




"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

"A scintalling tour de force of historical detective work." --Time



About the Author



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.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.3 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)
Weight: .6 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 432
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: United States
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Author: Garry Wills
Language: English
Street Date: January 2, 2018
TCIN: 92766638
UPC: 9780525435976
Item Number (DPCI): 247-21-8352
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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