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Cultural Studies. History. African/American Studies. Completed in 1819, Thomas Jefferson's revision of the Bible's four Gospels, which he literally cut-and-pasted together, is presented here in its entirety, with an introduction by award-winning novelist Percival Everett. Unable to fully resolve the contradictions of the third President's moral code and religious preoccupations, Everett imagines a trip east to Monticello to challenge Jefferson directly.
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Acclaimed author Percival Everett will take an atheists-eye-view of the little-known Jefferson Bible,” the third presidents response to the King James Bible.
Percival Everetts novel Erasure won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and his most recent, A History of the African-American People [Proposed] by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett and James Kincaid [A Novel] ruffled many Confederate feathers.
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Akashic Books announces a provocative series of books with early writings from United States presidents, starting with George Washington and moving chronologically forward in time. Each book will present an introduction by a talented and highly acclaimed contemporary writer. This series will be unlike any other presidential commentaries in print, and will be characterized by a critical viewpoint that will provide a counterbalance to the overly reverent and conservative analyses that invariably accompany presidential writings.
Visionary author Percival Everett will take an atheist's-eye-view of the little-known "Jefferson Bible," the third president's response to the King James Bible.
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Akashic U.S. Presidents Series, Volume 3. Acclaimed author Percival Everett takes an atheist's-eye-view of the little-known "Jefferson Bible," the third president's response to the King James Bible.
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Acclaimed author Percival Everett locks horns with Founding Father Thomas Jefferson in the new Akashic US Presidents Series.
About the Author
Percival Everett is the author of many works of fiction, among them Glyph, Watershed, American Desert,and Erasure,which won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
Thomas Jefferson served as the third President of the United States of America from 1801 to 1809