Author: Garry Wills Year: 1978 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Politics, Philosophy
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ISBNs: 9780618257768 9780385089760 0618257764 0385089767 |
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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.
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