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Author Gordon-Reed, Annette.

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

Publication Info. Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2016]
℗2016

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Location Call No. Status
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Media Room  CD BOOK 973.4609 GORDON-REED    Check Shelf
Edition Unabridged.
Description 12 audio discs (14 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Note Title from container.
Performer Narrated by Karen Chilton.
Note Compact disc.
In container (17 cm.).
Summary 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. The authors team up to present an absorbing and revealing character study that finally clarifies the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson. Tracing Jefferson's development and maturation from his youth to his old age, the authors explore what they call the "empire" of Jefferson's imagination--his expansive state of mind born of the intellectual influences and life experiences that led him into public life as a modern avatar of the enlightenment, who often likened himself to an ancient figure--"the most blessed of the patriarchs."
Note GMD: sound recording.
Subject Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Philiosophy.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Political and social views.
Genre/Form Audiobooks.
Added Author Onuf, Peter S.
Chilton, Karen. Narrator.
Recorded Books, Inc.
ISBN 9781501909986
1501909983
Music No. C04184 Recorded Books
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