Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (1978)

Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 0385089767

Condition: Good

The dust jacket has a large tear and several small tears along the edges of the dust jacket. The book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Contents Description:

Garry Wills argues that Americans have learned, over time, to see the Declaration of Independence rather than read it. This accounts for a surprising lacks of scholarly inquiry into the real meaning of the document and for the unfounded assumption that it simply restates pieties of eighteenth-century politics. - from the inside flap