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From acclaimed historian Garry Wills, writer of Lincoln at Gettysburg, a celebrated re-appraisal of the meaning and the foundation of inspiration with the Declaration of Independence, predicated on a reading of Jefferson's original draft report. Inventing America upended generations of thinking about The Declaration of Independence when it was first publicized in 1978 and remains one of the most important and important works of scholarship relating to this founding report. Wills challenged the idea that Jefferson got all his ideas from John Locke. Instead, by focussing on Jefferson's original drafts, he exhibited Jefferson's credit 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 forgotten drafts of the Declaration have changed and deepened the meaning and results of the solitary most important report that contintues to identify America.
