Being Thomas Jefferson
an intimate history
Being Thomas Jefferson
an intimate history
Book - 2026
The deepest dive yet into the heart and soul, secret affairs, unexplored alliances, and bitter feuds of a generally worshipped, intermittently reviled American icon.
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| التنسيق: | كتاب |
| اللغة: | English |
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New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2026.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Being Thomas Jefferson : |b an intimate history / |c Andrew Burstein. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b Bloomsbury Publishing, |c 2026. | |
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| 300 | |a xxxix, 430 pages : |b illustrations, map, portrait, genealogical table ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-413) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction : Jefferson seen and unseen -- Part I : Personal growth. "Savage enough" : his ruptured childhood -- "Sukey at Smith" : sexual secrets of a young lawyer -- "Till harmony rouse ev'ry gentle passion" : mountain paradise -- Part II : Passionate years. "Thrown into a reverie" : from romance to revolution -- "Every fibre of that passion" : a declaration and an adieu -- "Gazing like a lover at his mistress" : French women -- "An abuse of strength" : Condorcet's challenge, Maria's maid -- Part III : Political hazards. "Open mouthed against me" : an age of contempt -- "The late political paroxysm" : fever, delirium, and calumny -- "The campaign of slander is opening" : Adams vs. Jefferson vs. Burr -- "Bloody teeth & fangs" : sentimental rage, presidential power -- "I feel no passion, I take no part" : second term schisms -- Part IV: Imperiled legacy. "Suspicions & certainties, rumors & realities" : exorcising Washington's ghost. | |
| 520 | |a The deepest dive yet into the heart and soul, secret affairs, unexplored alliances, and bitter feuds of a generally worshipped, intermittently reviled American icon. | ||
| 520 | |a Perhaps no founding father is as mysterious as Thomas Jefferson. The author of the Declaration of Independence was both a gifted wordsmith and a bundle of nerves. His superior knowledge of the human heart is captured in the impassioned appeal he brought to the Declaration. But as a champion of the common man who lived a life of privilege on a mountaintop plantation of his own design, he has eluded biographers who have sought to make sense of his inner life. In Being Thomas Jefferson, acclaimed Jefferson scholar Andrew Burstein peels away layers of obfuscation, taking us past the veneer of the animated letter-writer to describe a confused lover and a misguided humanist, too timid to embrace antislavery. Jefferson was a soft-spoken man who recoiled from direct conflict, yet a master puppeteer in politics. Whenever he left Monticello, where he could control his environment, he suffered debilitating headaches that plagued him for decades, until he finally retired from public life. So, what did it feel like to be Thomas Jefferson? Burstein explains the decision to take as his mistress Sally Hemings, the enslaved half-sister of his late wife, who bore him six children, none of whom he acknowledged. Presenting a society that encouraged separation between public and private, appearance and essence, Burstein paints a dramatic picture of early American culture and brings us closer to Jefferson's life and thought than ever before. | ||
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