A short biography of Thomas Jefferson covers such topics as his life as a Virginia gentleman, his passionate belief in democracy, his defense of slavery, his relationship with Sally Hemings, and his contributions to America as a writer, ...
The Revolution of Ideas R. B. Bernstein. would be political suicide. He was a difficult man, ready to pick quarrels even with friends; his foes scoffed at him as a man beneath them, goading him into spectacular rages.
This text explores how the concept of the United States' westward expansion worked as the moving force in forming Jefferson's judgments and actions in foreign relations.
Thomas Jefferson: Genius of Liberty
Thomas Jefferson: Family Secrets is a new and unprecedented examination of the 'intimate' Thomas Jefferson--from his return to Monticello after two terms as president until his death.
Certainly Thomas Jefferson is among this group - some would argue that only he and Benjamin Franklin fall into this category . Among his many accomplishments , Jefferson was a statesman , parliamentarian , codifier of laws , antiquarian ...
In this book Thomas S. Kidd tells the story of Jefferson's ethical life through the lens of these tensions, including an unapologetic focus on the issue where Jefferson's idealistic philosophy and lived reality clashed most obviously: his ...
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A short biography of Thomas Jefferson covers such topics as his life as a Virginia gentleman, his passionate belief in democracy, his defense of slavery, his relationship with Sally Hemings, and his contributions to America as a writer, ...
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
A Day at Monticello Elizabeth V. Chew, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation. For. Marion. and. Alexander. —E.C.. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Chew, Elizabeth V., 1963– ThomasJefferson: A Day at Monticello / by Elizabeth ...
M. Andrew Holowchak. MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.), 194–95; and Conor Cruise O'Brien, “Thomas Jefferson: Radical and Racist,” Atlantic Monthly, October 1996, 53–74. 24. TJ to John Adams, 11 Apr. 1823. 25. TJ to Miles King, ...
The sort of assessment Holowchak aims to do in this book is both historical and psychological, so the book is in large measure a psy-chobiography.
It was gossiped that he had lost his family fortune gambling , but Jefferson considered him to be “ the ablest man who had ever filled that office . ” During those dinner conversations , Jefferson later remembered , he heard “ more good ...
Introduces the life and accomplishments of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States.
18, quotations 376, 380; Donald J. Greene, ed., Samuel Johnson: Political Writings (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977), 454. Also see Jack P. Greene, All Men are Created Equal: Some Reflection on the Character of the American ...
A biography of the Virginian who was noted as a statesman, inventor, and author of the Declaration of Independence.
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.
Have we Questers contemplated the ways in which we—at least a good number of us—have learned history in the past, ... we also should be aware of two other works; one is Molding the Good Citizen by Robert Lerner, Althea Nagai, ...
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 ...