Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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contains biographical information

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mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

"Most blessed of the patriarchs"

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

909974634

Responsibility statement

Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter S. Onuf

Sub title

Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination

Summary

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed teams up with the country’s leading Jefferson scholar, Peter S. Onuf, 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."

Target audience

general

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Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination

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