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Inventing America: Jeffersons Declaration of Independence Audiobook, by Garry Wills Play Audiobook Sample

Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence Audiobook

Inventing America: Jeffersons Declaration of Independence Audiobook, by Garry Wills Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Tom Wetzel, Tom Weitzel Publisher: Random House Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 12.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 9.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: January 2018 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780525525059

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

34

Longest Chapter Length:

62:03 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

14 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

32:06 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

12

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Publisher Description

From acclaimed historian Garry Wills, author of Lincoln at Gettysburg, a celebrated re-appraisal of the meaning and the source of inspiration of The Declaration of Independence, based on a reading of Jefferson's original draft document. 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 focussing 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's 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 contintues to define America.

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Awards

  • Winner of Merle Curti Award, 1978
  • Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards, 1978

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About Garry Wills

Garry Wills is a historian and the author of the New York Times bestsellers What Jesus Meant, Papal Sin, Why I Am a Catholic, and Why Priests?, among others. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and other publications, Wills is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor emeritus at Northwestern University. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.