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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. |
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Electronic book. |
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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. |
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Electronic reproduction. New York Liveright 2016 Available via World Wide Web. |
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Philiosophy.
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Political and social views.
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Electronic books.
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Onuf, Peter S., author.
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OverDrive, Inc., distributor.
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9781631490781 (electronic bk.) |
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