Annette Gordon-Reed

Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

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Thomas Jefferson is still presented today as an 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 as a hypocrite, an atheist and a simple-minded proponent of limited government. Now, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and leading Jefferson scholar team up to present an absorbing and revealing character study that finally clarifies the philosophy of Jefferson. The authors explore what they call the empire of Jefferson's imagination-his expansive state of mind born of the intellectual influ… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Onuf, Peter S.

ISBN: 978-1-63149-251-8
EAN: 9781631492518
Produktnummer: 19992187
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 400 S.
Masse: H21.1 cm x B13.9 cm x D2.4 cm 314 g
Gewicht: 314

Über den Autor

Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. The author of Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hemingses of Monticello, she lives in New York and Cambridge.