Title:
"Most blessed of the patriarchs" : Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination / Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter S. Onuf.
ISBN:
9780871404428
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Physical Description:
xxv, 370 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
Introduction: north and south -- Part I. Patriarch -- Home -- Plantation -- Virginia -- Part II. Traveller -- France -- Looking homeward -- Politics -- Part III. Enthusiast -- Music -- Visitors -- Privacy and prayers -- Epilogue.
Summary:
Jefferson was a man so riven with contradictions that he is almost impossible to know. Gordon-Reed and Onuf dispel the many clichés that have accrued over the years, and trace his philosophical development from youth to old age. In doing so, they challenge much of what we have come to accept about Jefferson, and reintroduce us to a man more gifted than most, but complicated in just the ways we all are.
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OCLC Number:
ocn909974634
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