Jefferson, Thomas
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The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson
by William Adams  Synopsis In 1784 Thomas Jefferson moved to the sophisticated and exhilarating city of Paris, where he spent the next five years as ambassador from the new United States of America. This engaging book recreates in word and illustration the atmosphere and...
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Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography
by Merrill D Peterson Publisher Comments The definitive life of Jefferson in one volume, this biography relates Jefferson's private life and thought to his prominent public position and reveals the rich complexity of his development. As Peterson explores the dominant themes guiding Jefferson's...
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Thomas Jefferson: Draftsman of a Nation
by Natalie Bober Publisher Comments Praise for Natalie Bober's previous work: Natalie Bober's Thomas Jefferson is a gift to us all. She makes him present, alive, and accessible: a man of intellect, feeling, grief, purpose, and great imagination. -- Ken Burns, documentary producer Natalie...
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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
by Joseph Ellis Publisher Comments For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight--and not only during his active political career. After 1809, his longed-for retirement was...
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Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
by Christopher Hitchens Publisher Comments In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father. Situating Jefferson within the context of America's evolution and...
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Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson
by Alan Pell Crawford Publisher Comments Much has been written about Thomas Jefferson, with good reason: His life was a great American drama–one of the greatest–played out in compelling acts. He was the architect of our democracy, a visionary chief executive who expanded this nation&...
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Jefferson Bible
by Thomas Jefferson Synopsis Thomas Jefferson believed that the pure-principled teachings of Jesus should have been separated from the dogma and abuse of organized religion of the day. This led him to recast, by cutting and pasting from the gospels, a new narrative of the life and...
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Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power
by Garry Wills Publisher Comments In "Negro President" the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Garry Wills explores a pivotal moment in American history through the lens of Thomas Jefferson and the now largely forgotten Timothy Pickering, and "prods readers to...
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Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson (05 Edition)
by Thomas Jefferson Publisher Comments Detailed account of this man's remarkable life and the period during which he wrote the Declaration of Independence. A first draft of the document in included, as are Jefferson's comments on the Articles of Confederation, his experiences as governor of...
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The Quotable Jefferson
by Thomas Jefferson Publisher Comments More than any other Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson made his reputation on the brilliance of his writing. John Adams chose the 33-year-old Jefferson to draft the Declaration of Independence largely because of his masterly Pen. The genius of the...
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Understanding Thomas Jefferson
by E M Halliday Publisher Comments Recent biographies of Thomas Jefferson have stressed the sphinxlike puzzles of his character—famous champion of freedom yet lifelong slaveholder, foe of miscegenation yet secret lover of a beautiful slave for 30 years, aristocrat yet fervent...
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Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings New Edition
by Annette Gordon Reed Synopsis In light of DNA evidence supporting a Jefferson-Hemings relationship, Gordon-Reed has added to her acclaimed study a new Preface in which she finds fresh reasons for seeing Thomas Jefferson as a complicated metaphor for the American character....
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The Garden and Farm Books of Thomas Jefferson
by Robert C Baron Synopsis Includes Jefferson's correspondence, drawings, and plans for Monticello's gardens....
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Mr. Jefferson's Women
by Jon Kukla Publisher Comments A pioneering study of Thomas Jefferson’s relationships with women in his personal life and in American society and politics. The author of the Declaration of Independence, who wrote the words “all men are created equal,” was...
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A President in the Family: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and Thomas Woodson
by Byron W Woodson Publisher Comments Conceived during Thomas Jefferson's junket in Paris, Thomas Woodson was Jefferson's first child by Sally Hemings. He was banished from Monticello at the age of 12, after a journalist exposed Jefferson's relationship with his young slave. A President in...
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Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
by Fawn Brodie Synopsis An ambitious, perceptive portrayal of a complex man, this bestselling biography breaks new ground in its exploration of Jefferson's inner life. "Brodie has humanized Jefferson without in the least diminishing him".--Wallace Stegner. Photos....
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Thomas Jefferson (American Presidents)
by Joyce Appleby Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-173) and index....
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Thomas Jefferson: A Strange Case of Mistaken Identity
by Alf Jr Mapp Publisher Comments It is the major premise of this book that the story of Thomas Jefferson in American History is a strange case of mistaken identity resulting in part from willful misrepresentation but even more from the wishful thinking of both admirers and detractors....
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Thomas Jefferson Travels
by Thomas Jefferson Publisher Comments Acclaimed travel and adventure expert Anthony Brandt illuminates Jefferson's inspiring voice, restless imagination and penetrating intelligence, drawing on his voluminous travel diaries and personal correspondence to reveal the man himself and the world...
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Mr. Jefferson's University (National Geographic Directions)
by Garry Wills Publisher Comments In Charlottesville, Virginia, at the University of Virginia, there is today—beneath the irregular rhythms of modern student comings and goings—a severely rhythmic expression of the Enlightenment, a philosophy concretized in brick and timber...
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