Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997
ISBN 10: 0679444904 ISBN 13: 9780679444909
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Verlag: Vintage Books, 1998
ISBN 10: 0679764410 ISBN 13: 9780679764410
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Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997
ISBN 10: 0965057976 ISBN 13: 9780965057974
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Ellis, Joseph J., Vintage Books (Random House), 1998, c1996, later printing, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), fine, 440 pp with appendix, notes & index, 8vo, ISBN: 0679764410, 'Sets a standard; history at its best', National Book Award winner. Biography; U.S. Presidents; U.S. History.
Ellis, Joseph J., Vintage Books (Random House), 1998, c1997, later printing, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), very near fine, 440 pp with appendix, notes & index, 8vo, ISBN: 0679764410, 'This elegant book on Jefferson sets a standard; history at its best', National Book Award winner.
Verlag: NY Vintage (1998)., 1998
Anbieter: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, USA
VG PB. Ellis restores our most enigmatic national icon to human dimensions. 2nd ptg edition.
Verlag: 0679444904
Anbieter: Inkberry Books, Niwot, CO, USA
Very Good. Zustand: Very Good. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 Psychology.
Verlag: Vintage, NY, 1998
Anbieter: M & M Books, ATHENS, GA, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. 6th ed.
Verlag: G K Hall & Co, 2000
ISBN 10: 0783890761 ISBN 13: 9780783890760
Anbieter: HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, USA
hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997
ISBN 10: 0679444904 ISBN 13: 9780679444909
Anbieter: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, USA
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Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Top page ridge foxed. 1997 Hard Cover. xiv, 365 pp. "For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight -- and not only during his active political career. After 1809, his longed-for retirement was compromised by a steady stream of guests and tourists who made of his estate at Monticello a virtual hotel, as well as by more than one thousand letters per year, most from strangers, which he insisted on answering personally. In his twilight years Jefferson was already taking on the luster of a national icon, which was polished off by his auspicious death (on July 4, 1896); and in the subsequent seventeen decades of his celebrity--now verging, thanks to virulent revisionists and television documentaries, on notoriety--has been inflated beyond recognition of the original person. For the historian Joseph J. Ellis, the experience of writing about Jefferson was "as if a pathologist, just about to begin an autopsy, has discovered that the body on the operating table was still breathing." In American Sphinx, Ellis sifts the facts shrewdly from the legends and the rumors, treading a path between vilification and hero worship in order to formulate a plausible portrait of the man who still today "hover[s] over the political scene like one of those dirigibles cruising above a crowded football stadium, flashing words of inspiration to both teams."For, at the grass roots, Jefferson is no longer liberal or conservative, agrarian or industrialist, pro- or anti-slavery, privileged or populist. He is all things to all people. His own obliviousness to incompatible convictions within himself (which left him deaf to most forms of irony) has leaked out into the world at large -- a world determined to idolize him despite his foibles. From Ellis we learn that Jefferson sang incessantly under his breath; that he delivered only two public speeches in eight years as president, while spending ten hours a day at his writing desk; that sometimes his political sensibilities collided with his domestic agenda, as when he ordered an expensive piano from London during a boycott (and pledged to 'keep it in storage'). We see him relishing such projects as the nailery at Monticello that allowed him to interact with his slaves more palatably, as pseudo-employer to pseudo-employees. We grow convinced that he preferred to meet his lovers in the rarefied region of his mind rather than in the actual bedchamber. We watch him exhibiting both great depth and great shallowness, combining massive learning with extraordinary naïveté, piercing insights with self-deception on the grandest scale. We understand why we should neither beatify him nor consign him to the rubbish heap of history, though we are by no means required to stop loving him. He is Thomas Jefferson, after all -- our very own sphinx.
Verlag: Vintage Books New York 1998, 1998
Anbieter: Dedalus-Libros, Madrid, MAD, Spanien
440 p 20 cm Encuadernación editorial en rústica. Estado de conservación: Como nuevo. .
Verlag: Vintage Books New York 1998, 1998
Anbieter: Dedalus-Libros, Madrid, MAD, Spanien
440 p 20 cm Encuadernación editorial en rústica. Estado de conservación: Como nuevo. .
Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2005
Anbieter: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. As new condition dark gray boards/green spine/black spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Jeffersonian Surge: America, 1992-93; Epilogue: The Future of an Illusion; Appendix: A Note on the Sally Hemings Scandal; Notes and Index. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER. Fourteenth printing. "For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight - and not only during his active political career. After 1809, his longed-for retirement was compromised by a steady stream of guests and tourists who made of his estate at Monticello a virtual hotel, as well as by more than one thousand letters per year, most from strangers, which he insisted on answering personally. In his twilight years Jefferson was already taking on the luster of a national icon, which was polished off by his auspicious death (on July 4, 1826); and in the subsequent seventeen decades his celebrity - now verging, thanks to virulent revisionists and television documentaries, on notoriety - has been inflated beyond recognition of the original person. For the historian Joseph J. Ellis, the experience of writing about Jefferson was 'as if a pathologist, just about to begin an autopsy, had discovered that the body on the operating table was still breathing.' In American Sphinx, Ellis sifts the facts shrewdly from the legends and the rumors, treading a path between vilification and hero worship in order to formulate a plausible portrait of the man who still today 'hover[s] over the political scene like one of those dirigibles cruising above a crowded football stadium, flashing words of inspiration to both teams." For, at the grass roots, Jefferson is no longer liberal or conservative, agrarian or industrialist, pro- or anti-slavery, privileged or populist. He is all things to all people. His own obliviousness to incompatible convictions within himself (which left him deaf to most forms of irony) has leaked out into the world at large - a world determined to idolize him despite his foibles. From Ellis we learn that Jefferson sang incessantly under his breath; that he delivered only two public speeches in eight years as president, while spending ten hours a day at his writing desk; that sometimes his political sensibilities collided with his domestic agenda, as when he ordered an expensive piano from London during a boycott (and pledged to "keep it in storage"). We see him relishing such projects as the nailery at Monticello that allowed him to interact with his slaves more palatably, as pseudo-employer to pseudo-employees. We grow convinced that he preferred to meet his lovers in the rarefied region of his mind rather than in the actual bedchamber. We watch him exhibiting both great depth and great shallowness, combining massive learning with extraordinary naivete, piercing insights with self-deception on the grandest scale. We understand why we should neither beatify him nor consign him to the rubbish heap of history, though we are by no means required to stop loving him. He is Thomas Jefferson, after all - our very own sphinx." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.
Verlag: The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 2000
Anbieter: Charles Lewis Best Booksellers, San Diego, CA, USA
Full Calf. Collector's Edition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed natural calf sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. xiv, 365. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . Together with histories of the founding of the republic, since 1993 Ellis has written biographies about individual early presidents and, in 2010, a joint biography of John and Abigail Adams. Interested in how men shaped and were shaped by their times, he writes with a novelist's emphasis on character. Ellis is notable as a respected scholar whose work has also gained popular success; his biography of Jefferson and work on the Founding Fathers have been bestsellers, attaining sales of hundreds of thousands of copies. In 2004, the critic Jonathan Yardley wrote of him: "Ellis doubtless is now the most widely read scholar of the Revolutionary period, and thus probably the most influential as wellat least among the general public." In exceptionally good condition.
Verlag: Easton Press
Anbieter: Sunshine State Books, Lithia, FL, USA
leather_bound. Zustand: As New. Leather bound--no flaws.
Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Collector's edition. (US history, presidents, press books).
Zustand: LikeNew. Page block firm and clean, binding unblemished, boards straight, without markings of any kind. Fine, like new condition. Extremely fine. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.
Verlag: The Easton Press, 2000
Anbieter: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Collector's edition. Full brown leather with gilt lettering and embellishments, silk moire endpapers and bookmark. Minor edge wear may be present due to storage, otherwise NF, unread.
Verlag: New York, Vintage Books,, New York, 1998
Anbieter: Studio Bibliografico Marini, ROMA, RM, Italien
paperback. Zustand: Molto buono (Very Good). . 8vo. pp. XIX + 440. . Molto buono (Very Good). . . . Book.
Verlag: Blackstone Audio, Inc., Ashland, OR, 1999
ISBN 10: 0786114754 ISBN 13: 9780786114757
Audiobook cassette. Zustand: Fine. Library Edition; 2.26 x 9.67 x 6.93 Inches; Unabridged audio. Set of 11 cassettes in clam shell case. Cassettes appear bright and fresh. Case immaculate. Fine/Like New.
Verlag: Norwalk, The Easton Press, [, 1996
Anbieter: Hammer Mountain Book Halls, ABAA, Schenectady, NY, USA
Hardcover. Collector's Edition, bound in leather. Embossed ownership stamp on title page; otherwise very good condition. ]. 365p. Collector's Edition, bound in leather.
Verlag: The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 2000
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000. Deep tan lleather with lettering and decoration in gilt, raised spine bands, all edges gilt, moire silk endleaves, attached ribbon bookmark. Fine condition, looks and feels new and unread with tight binding, clean pages, no names, no bookplates and no other markings. . Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Verlag: Easton Press
Anbieter: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, USA
Leather Bound. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Pages without any extraneous marks. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 2.45.
Zustand: VeryGood. Leather-bound NOT Ex-library. Very good condition. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona. Until further notice, USPS Priority Mail only reliable option for Hawaii.
Verlag: The Easton Press
Anbieter: Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine, Tucson, AZ, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Volume is bound in brown leather with gold foil-stamping on the boards and spine. All edges gilt. Bound-in ribbon. Book is fully fine.
Verlag: The Easton Press, 2000
Anbieter: Prime Booksellers, Agoura Hills, CA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Reprint. Light brown leather binding.
Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf New York 1997, 1997
Anbieter: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australien
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1st edition / 1st printing hardback with dust jacket As New octavo xiv + 365pp., notes, index, Offers a reassessment of the life, image, and career of Thomas Jefferson, examining his complex personality, controversies about the man and his beliefs, and his accomplishments.
Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1998
Anbieter: Studio Bibliografico Malombra, Vicenza, VI, Italien
XIV, 365 pp.; 24,5 cm. Cart. edit. con sovrac. Ex libris all'interno della copertina. Molto buono.
Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, (1998), New York, 1998
ISBN 10: 0679444904 ISBN 13: 9780679444909
Anbieter: ARABESQUE BOOKS, Atlanta, GA, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. pp. xiv, [3], 4-365 including index. 8vo. Eighth Printing. Inscribed on the title page to an individual and signed by the author. Dust jacket protected in a mylar sleeve, not price clipped. Dust jacket and book are in excellent condition, no marks except for the inscription. Signed by Author(s).
Verlag: Easton Press, 2000
Anbieter: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, USA
hardcover. Zustand: fine. no jacket. Leather bound. Like new.