Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
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 focusing 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' 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 continues to define America.
By: Garry Wills
Paperback: 432 Pages
Language: English
5.19 x 0.98 x 8 inches
ISBN: 9780525435976
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