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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon-Reed, Annette, author.

Onuf, Peter S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Philosophy.

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Political and social views.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxv, 370 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2016.

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."

Contents:

Introduction: north and south

Part I. Patriarch

Home

Plantation

Virginia

Part II. Traveller

France

Looking homeward

Politics

Part III. Enthusiast

Music

Visitors

Privacy and prayers

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Kennedy fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780871404428 : HRD

0871404427 : HRD