| Description |
xxv, 370 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-348) and index. |
| Summary |
Tracing Jefferson's philosophical development from youth to old age, the authors explore what they call the "empire" of Jefferson's imagination—an expansive state of mind born of his origins in a slave society, his intellectual influences, and the vaulting ambition that propelled him into public life as a modern avatar of the Enlightenment who, at the same time, likened himself to a figure of old—"the most blessed of the patriarchs." Indeed, Jefferson saw himself as a "patriarch," not just to his country and mountain-like home at Monticello but also to his family, the white half that he loved so publicly, as well as to the black side that he claimed to love, a contradiction of extraordinary historical magnitude. |
| Subject |
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Philosophy.
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Political and social views.
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| Added Author |
Onuf, Peter S., author.
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| Added Title |
Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination |
| ISBN |
9780871404428 (hardcover) |
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