The Private Jefferson
Author: Henry Adams
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781936520084
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Both exhibition and book celebrate the society's 225th year. Distributed for the Massachusetts Historical Society
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The Private Jefferson
Author: Henry Adams
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781936520091
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Published on the occasion of the exhibition The private Jefferson: from the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, opened at the Society on January 29, 2016"--Title page verso.
Thomas Jefferson
Author: Alf Johnson Mapp (Jr.)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780742564404
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Follows Jefferson from his inauguration as President in 1801 to his death at the age of 83 on July 4, 1826. It embraces the eight years as Chief Executive in which he doubled the size of the United States by his daring Louisiana Purchase, sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on one of the world's greatest expeditions of exploration, and challenged the formidable Chief Justice John Marshall with a major program of judicial reform. It proves the falseness of the stereotype that Jefferson ignored national defense and tried to keep the Navy weak. The book shows him late in life, with ideas that have relevance today, planning a system of public education and founding the University of Virginia, and it reveals, better than any other biography to date, the intimate details of the lonely private battle he fought during his last tortured, but ultimately triumphant, decade.
The Mind of Thomas Jefferson
Author: Peter S. Onuf
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2012-10-05
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 0813934230
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In The Mind of Thomas Jefferson, one of the foremost historians of Jefferson and his time, Peter S. Onuf, offers a collection of essays that seeks to historicize one of our nation’s founding fathers. Challenging current attempts to appropriate Jefferson to serve all manner of contemporary political agendas, Onuf argues that historians must look at Jefferson’s language and life within the context of his own place and time. In this effort to restore Jefferson to his own world, Onuf reconnects that world to ours, providing a fresh look at the distinction between private and public aspects of his character that Jefferson himself took such pains to cultivate. Breaking through Jefferson’s alleged opacity as a person by collapsing the contemporary interpretive frameworks often used to diagnose his psychological and moral states, Onuf raises new questions about what was on Jefferson’s mind as he looked toward an uncertain future. Particularly striking is his argument that Jefferson’s character as a moralist is nowhere more evident, ironically, than in his engagement with the institution of slavery. At once reinvigorating the tension between past and present and offering a new way to view our connection to one of our nation’s founders, The Mind of Thomas Jefferson helps redefine both Jefferson and his time and American nationhood.
Jefferson's Fine Arts Library
Author: William Bainter O'Neal
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780813906478
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation
Author: Merrill D. Peterson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1986-09-11
Total Pages: 1106
ISBN-13: 0199840520
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
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The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 1998-11-10
Total Pages: 738
ISBN-13: 0375752188
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Jefferson aspired beyond the ambition of a nationality, and embraced in his view the whole future of man.”—Henry Adams Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) left a vast literary legacy in the form of journal entries, notes, addresses, and seventy thousand letters. This extraordinary volume represents many of his most important contributions to American political thought. It features his Autobiography, which contains the original and revised versions of the Declaration of Independence; the Anas, or Notes (1791–1809); Biographical Sketches; selections from Notes on the State of Virginia, the Travel Journals, and Essay on Anglo-Saxon; a portion of his public papers, including his first and second inaugural addresses; and more than two hundred letters. Taken together, these writings offer indispensable insight into the mind of the man who was instrumental in formulating and guiding this nation’s principles. From the Preface: This selection from the writings of Thomas Jefferson is planned to be a comprehensive presentation of his thought. The greatest amount of space has been allotted to his letters, in the belief that they are of primary importance in revealing the man and his intellect. Jefferson’s two original full-length works, the Notes on Virginia and the Autobiography, are given virtually complete. Along with his best-known public papers, selections from his minor writings are also included. Together, all these serve to depict the man who more aptly than any of his countrymen might be called the American Leonardo.
Madison and Jefferson
Author: Andrew Burstein
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2013-01-29
Total Pages: 850
ISBN-13: 0812979001
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“[A] monumental dual biography . . . a distinguished work, combining deep research, a pleasing narrative style and an abundance of fresh insights, a rare combination.”—The Dallas Morning News The third and fourth presidents have long been considered proper gentlemen, with Thomas Jefferson’s genius overshadowing James Madison’s judgment and common sense. But in this revelatory book about their crucial partnership, both are seen as men of their times, hardboiled operatives in a gritty world of primal politics where they struggled for supremacy for more than fifty years. With a thrilling and unprecedented account of early America as its backdrop, Madison and Jefferson reveals these founding fathers as privileged young men in a land marked by tribal identities rather than a united national personality. Esteemed historians Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg capture Madison’s hidden role—he acted in effect as a campaign manager—in Jefferson’s career. In riveting detail, the authors chart the courses of two very different presidencies: Jefferson’s driven by force of personality, Madison’s sustained by a militancy that history has been reluctant to ascribe to him. Supported by a wealth of original sources—newspapers, letters, diaries, pamphlets—Madison and Jefferson is a watershed account of the most important political friendship in American history. “Enough colorful characters for a miniseries, loaded with backstabbing (and frontstabbing too).”—Newsday “An important, thoughtful, and gracefully written political history.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Thomas Jefferson
Author: Alf Johnson Mapp
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the story of Jefferson's life from his birth in 1743 to his inauguration as President in 1801. It is a fresh interpretation resulting from 30 years of thought and study on the subject.
