Inventing America : Jefferson's Declaration of Indepedence (Paperback)

from JFBallenger

This book is much broader than the title suggests. It does much to de-mythologize the Declaration itself, distinguishing the documents penned by Jefferson and approved by Congress from the symbolic meanings that have surrounded it, particularly since Lincoln's elegiac invocation of it in the Gett...

from elenchus

It is not surprising that we should misunderstand the Declaration [of Jefferson's original draft]. It is written in the lost language of the Enlightenment. It is dark with unexamined lights. [xiv] Jefferson's draft Declaration was altered before adoption by the Continental Congress; the prevailin...

from elenchus

It is not surprising that we should misunderstand the Declaration [of Jefferson's original draft]. It is written in the lost language of the Enlightenment. It is dark with unexamined lights. [xiv] Jefferson's draft Declaration was altered before adoption by the Continental Congress; the prevailin...