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Name: Inventing America
Full title: Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
Author: Garry Wills
Year: 1978
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Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Politics, Philosophy

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction in 1978.
Winner of the Merle Curti Award in 1979.
Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award in 1978.

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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