Inventing America
Subtitle: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: November 14, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780618257768
First sentence: The Virginians clattered into Philadelphia with the glitter, almost, of Magi.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.