The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson

The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson
Title The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson PDF eBook
Author Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 324
Release 1993-08-15
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780226064970

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In this classic work by one of America's most widely read historians, Daniel J. Boorstin demonstrates why and how, on the 250th anniversary of his birth, Thomas Jefferson continues to speak to us.

The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson

The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson
Title The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson PDF eBook
Author Daniel Joseph Boorstin
Publisher
Pages 306
Release 1981
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780226064963

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In this classic work by one of America's most distinguished historians, Daniel Boorstin enters into Thomas Jefferson's world of ideas. By analysing writings of 'the Jeffersonian Circle,' Boorstin explores concepts of God, nature, equality, toleration, education and government in order to illuminate their underlying world view. The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson demonstrates why on the 250th anniversary of his birth, this American leader's message has remained relevant to our national crises and grand concerns. "The volume is too subtle, too rich in ideas for anyone to do justice to it in brief summary, too heavily documented and too carefully wrought for anyone to dismiss its thesis. . . . It is a major contribution not only to Jefferson studies but to American intellectual history. . . . All who work in the history of ideas will find themselves in Mr. Boorstin's debt."—Richard Hofstadter, South Atlantic Monthly

Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation

Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation
Title Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation PDF eBook
Author Merrill D. Peterson
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 1106
Release 1986-09-11
Genre History
ISBN 0199840520

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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 Presidency of Thomas Jefferson

The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson
Title The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson PDF eBook
Author Forrest McDonald
Publisher Lawrence : University Press of Kansas
Pages 226
Release 1976
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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The aim of the American Presidency Series is to present historians and the general reading public with interesting, scholarly assessment of the various presidential administrations. These interpretive surveys are intended to cover the broad ground between biographies, specialized monographs, and journalistic accounts.

The Jefferson Lies

The Jefferson Lies
Title The Jefferson Lies PDF eBook
Author David Barton
Publisher Thomas Nelson Inc
Pages 305
Release 2012
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1595554599

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Noted historian Barton sets the record straight on the lies and misunderstandings that have tarnished the legacy of Thomas Jefferson.

Master of the Mountain

Master of the Mountain
Title Master of the Mountain PDF eBook
Author Henry Wiencek
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 354
Release 2012-10-16
Genre History
ISBN 1466827785

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Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. Master of the Mountain, Henry Wiencek's eloquent, persuasive book—based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jefferson's papers—opens up a huge, poorly understood dimension of Jefferson's world. We must, Wiencek suggests, follow the money. So far, historians have offered only easy irony or paradox to explain this extraordinary Founding Father who was an emancipationist in his youth and then recoiled from his own inspiring rhetoric and equivocated about slavery; who enjoyed his renown as a revolutionary leader yet kept some of his own children as slaves. But Wiencek's Jefferson is a man of business and public affairs who makes a success of his debt-ridden plantation thanks to what he calls the "silent profits" gained from his slaves—and thanks to a skewed moral universe that he and thousands of others readily inhabited. We see Jefferson taking out a slave-equity line of credit with a Dutch bank to finance the building of Monticello and deftly creating smoke screens when visitors are dismayed by his apparent endorsement of a system they thought he'd vowed to overturn. It is not a pretty story. Slave boys are whipped to make them work in the nail factory at Monticello that pays Jefferson's grocery bills. Parents are divided from children—in his ledgers they are recast as money—while he composes theories that obscure the dynamics of what some of his friends call "a vile commerce." Many people of Jefferson's time saw a catastrophe coming and tried to stop it, but not Jefferson. The pursuit of happiness had been badly distorted, and an oligarchy was getting very rich. Is this the quintessential American story?

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson
Title Thomas Jefferson PDF eBook
Author Christopher Hitchens
Publisher HarperCollins UK
Pages 208
Release 2007
Genre Presidents
ISBN 0007213727

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Hitchens brings the character of Jefferson to life as a man of his time and also as a symbolic figure beyond it. Conflicted by power, Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and acted as Minister to France yet yearned for a quieter career in the Virginia legislature. Predicting that slavery would shape the future of America's development, this professed proponent of emancipation continued to own human property. He negotiated the Louisiana Purchase with France, doubling the size of the nation, and authorized the Lewis and Clark expedition, opening up the American frontier. The Barbary War, a lesser-known chapter of his political career, led to the building of the U.S. Navy and the fortification of America's reputation regarding national defense. In the background is the fledgling nation's struggle for independence, formed in the crucible of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, and, in its shadow, the deformation of that struggle in the excesses of the French Revolution.