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The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson
Author | : Sarah Nicholas Randolph |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : Politics, Practical |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433082378542 |
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Thomas Jefferson s Lives
Author | : Robert M. S. McDonald |
Publsiher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2019-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813942926 |
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Who was the "real" Thomas Jefferson? If this question has an answer, it will probably not be revealed reading the many accounts of his life. For two centuries biographers have provided divergent perspectives on him as a man and conflicting appraisals of his accomplishments. Jefferson was controversial in his own time, and his propensity to polarize continued in the years after his death as biographers battled to control the commanding heights of history. To judge from their depictions, there existed many different Thomas Jeffersons. The essays in this book explore how individual biographers have shaped history—as well as how the interests and preoccupations of the times in which they wrote helped to shape their portrayals of Jefferson. In different eras biographers presented the third president variously as a proponent of individual rights or of majority rule, as a unifier or a fierce partisan, and as a champion of either American nationalism or cosmopolitanism. Conscripted to serve Whigs and Democrats, abolitionists and slaveholders, unionists and secessionists, Populists and Progressives, and seemingly every side of almost every subsequent struggle, the only constant was that Jefferson’s image remained a mirror of Americans’ self-conscious conceptions of their nation’s virtues, values, and vices. Thomas Jefferson’s Lives brings together leading scholars of Jefferson and his era, all of whom embrace the challenge to assess some of the most important and enduring accounts of Jefferson’s life. Contributors:Jon Meacham, presidential historian * Barbara Oberg, Princeton University * J. Jefferson Looney, Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello * Christine Coalwell McDonald, Westchester Community College * Robert M.S. McDonald, United States Military Academy * Andrew Burstein, Louisiana State University * Jan Ellen Lewis, Rutgers University * Richard Samuelson, California State University, San Bernardino * Nancy Isenberg, Louisiana State University * Joanne B. Freeman, Yale University * Brian Steele, University of Alabama at Birmingham * Herbert Sloan, Barnard College * R. B. Bernstein, City College of New York * Francis D. Cogliano, University of Edinburgh * Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University * Gordon S. Wood, Brown University
Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation
Author | : Merrill D. Peterson |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1106 |
Release | : 1986-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199840526 |
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The definitive life of Jefferson in one volume, this biography relates Jefferson's private life and thought to his prominent public position and reveals the rich complexity of his development. As Peterson explores the dominant themes guiding Jefferson's career--democracy, nationality, and enlightenment--and Jefferson's powerful role in shaping America, he simultaneously tells the story of nation coming into being.
The Life of Thomas Jefferson
Author | : Henry Stephens Randall |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : Presidents |
ISBN | : UOM:39015011520965 |
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The Religious Life of Thomas Jefferson
Author | : Charles B. Sanford |
Publsiher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813911311 |
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People familiar with Jefferson's deism, Unitarianism and enthusiasm for Bible study do not seem to appreciate the importance of his religious beliefs to his political beliefs.
A Summary View of the Rights of British America
Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1774 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433112149970 |
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Thomas Jefferson
Author | : Christopher Hitchens |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780061753978 |
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"A balanced, readable portrait. A refreshing perspective.” —New York Times Book Review With intelligence, insight, eloquence, and wit, bestselling author Christopher Hitchens gives us an artful portrait of a complex, formative figure in American history and his turbulent era. In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father—a man conflicted by power who wrote the Declaration of Independence and acted as ambassador to France yet yearned for a quieter career in the Virginia legislature. A masterly writer, Jefferson was an awkward public speaker. A professed proponent of emancipation, he elided the issue of slavery from the Declaration of Independence and continued to own human property. A reluctant candidate, he left an indelible presidential legacy.
In Pursuit of Reason
Author | : Noble E. Cunningham, Jr. |
Publsiher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1988-05-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780345353801 |
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"A major contribution." Washington Post The authoritative single-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson, perhaps the most significant figure in American history. He was a complex and compelling man: a fervent advocate of democracy who enjoyed the life of a southern aristocrat and owned slaves, a revolutionary who became president, a believer in states' rights who did much to further the power of the federal government. Drawing on the recent explosion of Jeffersonian scholarship and fresh readings of original sources, IN PURSUIT OF REASON is a monument to Jefferson that will endure for generations.