TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wills, Garry,
TI  - Inventing America: Jefferson's declaration of independence 
SN  - 394727355
AV  - E 221 .W685 1979
PY  - 1979///, c1978
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books
N1  - Originally published by Doubleday and Company, Inc., in June 1978.--Tp verso; The Declarations of Jefferson and of the Congress: p. [374]-379; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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 ). www.alibris.com
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