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Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxv, 370 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
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 Prizewinning historian Annette Gordon-Reed teams up with the countrys...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xxix, 759 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Description
"Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" gives readers Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously, catapulting him into becoming the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all of American history.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
viii, 738 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Provides an invaluable look at Thomas Jefferson's intellectual and literary life, focusing on the books and ideas that exerted the most profound influence on him, including "Aesop's Fables," "Robinson Crusoe," and works by the great writers of classical antiquity.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 24 cm.
Description
Thomas Jefferson loved to read and collect books on almost every subject. He built his first library as a young man, and kept on building until his book collection helped to create the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the world's largest library.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
405 pages : illustrations (black & white), maps ; 24 cm
Description
"In 1784, travel wrenched Thomas Jefferson out of the darkest period of his life. He sailed to France a broken man, but on the road, he rediscovered a world of hidden beauty and penned a guide he called Hints for Americans Traveling in Europe. During a crisis of his own, Derek Baxter dares himself to follow Jefferson's route. On a series of journeys (piloting a Dutch canal boat, hiking the French Alps, and fishing in the Atlantic), Baxter follows...
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Author
Series
Library of America volume 17
Publisher
Literary Classics of the U.S
Pub. Date
c1984.
Physical Desc
1600 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
233 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
In 1784, Thomas Jefferson struck a deal with one of his slaves, James Hemings. The founding father was traveling to Paris and wanted to bring James along to master the art of French cooking. In exchange for James's cooperation, Jefferson would grant his freedom. Thus began one of the strangest partnerships in United States history. As Hemings apprenticed under master French chefs, Jefferson studied the cultivation of French crops so they might be...
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