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

Gordon-Reed, Annette; Onuf, Peter S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0871404427 ISBN 13: 9780871404428

Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Thomas Jefferson is often portrayed as a hopelessly enigmatic figure—a riddle—a man so riven with contradictions that he is almost impossible to know. Lauded as the most articulate voice of American freedom and equality, even as he held people—including his own family—in bondage, Jefferson is variably described as a hypocrite, an atheist, or a simple-minded proponent of limited government who expected all Americans to be farmers forever.Now, Annette Gordon-Reed teams up with America's leading Jefferson scholar, Peter S. Onuf, to present an absorbing and revealing character study that dispels the many clichés that have accrued over the years about our third president. Challenging the widely prevalent belief that Jefferson remains so opaque as to be unknowable, the authors—through their careful analysis, painstaking research, and vivid prose—create a portrait of Jefferson, as he might have painted himself, one "comprised of equal parts sun and shadow" (Jane Kamensky).Tracing Jefferson's philosophical development from youth to old age, the authors explore what they call the "empire" of Jefferson's imagination—an expansive state of mind born of his origins in a slave society, his intellectual influences, and the vaulting ambition that propelled him into public life as a modern avatar of the Enlightenment who, at the same time, likened himself to a figure of old—"the most blessed of the patriarchs." Indeed, Jefferson saw himself as a "patriarch," not just to his country and mountain-like home at Monticello but also to his family, the white half that he loved so publicly, as well as to the black side that he claimed to love, a contradiction of extraordinary historical magnitude."Most Blessed of the Patriarchs""Most Blessed of the Patriarchs"

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. The author of Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hemingses of Monticello, she lives in New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Peter S. Onuf is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He is the New York Times best–selling author or coauthor of fourteen books, including, with Annette Gordon–Reed, “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs.” He lives in Connecticut and Maine.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0871404427
• ISBN 13: 9780871404428
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 370
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