
"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs"
Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published on 13. April 2016
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-87140-442-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 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".
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
WW Norton & Co
Product notice
Rough front
Illustrations
15 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
718 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87140-442-8 (9780871404428)
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Annette Gordon-Reed | Peter S. Onuf
"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs"
Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
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04/2016
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Persons
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, Massachusetts. Peter S. Onuf is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He is the New York Times best-selling author or coauthor of fourteen books, including, with Annette Gordon-Reed, "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs." He lives in Connecticut and Maine.