Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
xxv, 370 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page [323]-348) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: north and south -- Part I. Patriarch -- Home -- Plantation -- Virginia -- Part II. Traveller -- France -- Looking homeward -- Politics -- Part III. Enthusiast -- Music -- Visitors -- Privacy and prayers -- Epilogue. |
Summary |
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and a forefront Jefferson scholar clarify philosophical questions about the Founding Father to trace his youth and development through the inconsistencies attributed to his character and his old age, sharing insights into his intellectual influences and formative experiences. |
Subject |
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Philosophy.
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Political and social views.
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Added Author |
Onuf, Peter S., author.
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Added Title |
Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination |
ISBN |
9780871404428 (hardcover) |
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0871404427 (hardcover) |
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