"Most blessed of the patriarchs"

Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination
Annette Gordon-Reed Peter S Onuf
Book - 2016

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."

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gordon-Reed, Annette (Author), Onuf, Peter S. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
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