Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination - Couverture rigide

Gordon-Reed, Annette; Onuf, Peter S.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0871404427 ISBN 13 : 9780871404428

Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2016

Synopsis

Thomas Jefferson is still presented today as a hopelessly enigmatic figure, despite being written about more than any other Founding Father. Lauded as the most articulate voice of American freedom, even as he held people in bondage, Jefferson is variably described by current-day observers as a hypocrite, an atheist and a simple-minded proponent of limited government. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed teams up with the country's leading Jefferson scholar, Peter S. Onuf, to present an absorbing and revealing character study that finally clarifies the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson. Tracing Jefferson's development and maturation from his youth to his old age, the authors explore what they call the "empire" of Jefferson's imagination-his expansive state of mind born of the intellectual influences and life experiences that led him into public life as a modern avatar of the enlightenment, who often likened himself to an ancient figure-"the most blessed of the patriarchs."

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Annette Gordon-Reed is the author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hemingses of Monticello and is Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School. Peter S. Onuf is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0871404427
• ISBN 13: 9780871404428
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
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