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Author Gordon-Reed, Annette, author.

Title "Most blessed of the patriarchs" : Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination / Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter S. Onuf.

Publication Info. New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2016]

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  973.46 GORDON-REED    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  973.46 GOR    Storage
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  973.4609 GORDON-REED    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  973.4 GOR    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B JEFFERSON, THOMAS    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  973.46 GORDON-REED    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B JEFFERSON, THOMAS    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  973.4 GOR    Check Shelf
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 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  973.46 GOR    Check Shelf

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.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Political and social views.
Added Author Onuf, Peter S., author.
Added Title Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination
ISBN 9780871404428 (hardcover)
0871404427 (hardcover)
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