The Elusive Thomas Jefferson

Author : M. Andrew Holowchak
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476630038
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elusive Thomas Jefferson written by M. Andrew Holowchak and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:  Thomas Jefferson’s writings on morality have largely been ignored. His thoughts on the subject, never developed in any formal work, are said to be unsystematic—a judgment reinforced by his shift from Stoicism (intentions are critical) to Utilitarianism (consequences are critical) later in life. Yet his writings and the moral works he recommended reveal much about his moral sense and views on good living. Jefferson valued personal moral improvement, had great respect for moral exemplars and drew inspiration from moralists, sermonizers, novelists, poets, historians and such role models as Professor William Small and his friend George Wythe.

Author : M. Andrew Holowchak
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476669252
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elusive Thomas Jefferson written by M. Andrew Holowchak and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Jefferson's writings on morality have largely been ignored. His thoughts on the subject, never developed in any formal work, are said to be unsystematic--a judgment reinforced by his shift from Stoicism (intentions are critical) to Utilitarianism (consequences are critical) later in life. Yet his writings and the moral works he recommended reveal much about his moral sense and views on good living. Jefferson valued personal moral improvement, had great respect for moral exemplars and drew inspiration from moralists, sermonizers, novelists, poets, historians and such role models as Professor William Small and his friend George Wythe.

Author : Henry Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936520084
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Private Jefferson written by Henry Adams and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both exhibition and book celebrate the society's 225th year. Distributed for the Massachusetts Historical Society

Author : Joseph J. Ellis
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375727469
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Sphinx written by Joseph J. Ellis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER Following Thomas Jefferson from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph J. Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jeffersonian character. He gives us the slaveholding libertarian who was capable of decrying mescegenation while maintaing an intimate relationship with his slave, Sally Hemmings; the enemy of government power who exercisdd it audaciously as president; the visionarty who remained curiously blind to the inconsistencies in his nature. American Sphinx is a marvel of scholarship, a delight to read, and an essential gloss on the Jeffersonian legacy.

Author : Drew R. McCoy
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807838322
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Elusive Republic written by Drew R. McCoy and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By investigating eighteenth-century social and economic thought--an intellectual world with its own vocabulary, concepts, and assumptions--Drew McCoy smoothly integrates the history of ideas and the history of public policy in the Jeffersonian era. The book was originally published by UNC Press in 1980.

Author : Francis D. Cogliano
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444344617
Total Pages : 899 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Thomas Jefferson written by Francis D. Cogliano and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 899 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Thomas Jefferson presents a state-of-the-art assessment and overview of the life and legacy of Thomas Jefferson through a collection of essays grounded in the latest scholarship. Features essays by the leading scholars in the field, including Pulitzer Prize winners Annette Gordon-Reed and Jack Rakove Includes a section that considers Jefferson’s legacy Explores Jefferson’s wide range of interests and expertise, and covers his public career, private life, his views on democracy, and his writings Written to be accessible for the non-specialist as well as Jefferson scholars

Author : Peter Onuf
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781881089575
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Jefferson written by Peter Onuf and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1999-08-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agrarian; confident champion of freedom and uneasy slaveholder; advocate of a government strictly limited to the needs of his time - Thomas Jefferson remains a force in our political and social thought. Part of the continuing interest in him comes of curiosity about a statesman as withdrawn and elusive in personality as he was clear and eloquent in words. Recent DNA evidence that he probably fathered one or more children by one of his slaves deepens the mystery about him. The greater question has to do with his pronouncements about the nature and foundations of liberty, so direct and simple in expression. In this anthology of Jefferson's writings, Peter Onuf begins with an Introduction entitled, "Making Sense of Jefferson," which is then followd by 86 selections from a variety of documents: letters, official papers, public addresses, and opinions, including an extensive selection from Notes on the State of Virginia, making this an ideal reader for a variety of venues.

Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Thomas Jefferson written by Thomas Jefferson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert W. Tucker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195062076
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire of Liberty written by Robert W. Tucker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: None of the founding fathers seems more elusive than Thomas Jefferson. A Virginian nationalist, a slave-holding philosophe, an aristocratic democrat, a provincial cosmopolitan, a pacific imperialist--the paradoxes loom as meaningful and portentous as America itself. Indeed, they represent the deep contradictions of his policies as well as personality, laid bare here in a provocative study of Jefferson's statecraft. Empire of Liberty takes a new look at the public life, thought, and ambiguous legacy of one of America's most revered statesmen, offering new insight into the meaning of Jefferson in the American experience. Robert Tucker and David Hendrickson vividly portray a complex man driven by his passion for liberty and his longing for a vast empire. They explore how Jefferson developed a new approach to diplomacy in the course of his bitter debates with Alexander Hamilton. This new diplomacy joined a policy of territorial and commercial expansion with a dread of war and a reliance on economic sanctions. It was with such an outlook that Jefferson met the two great crises of his presidency: the threat to American security posed by the French acquisition of Louisiana and the restrictions on American commerce prompted by the death struggle between Britain and France. The policy produced paradoxical success in the Louisiana crisis but led to complete failure in the form of the Embargo. Taken to escape the alternatives of national humiliation and war, the Embargo led first to humiliation and then, ultimately, to war. The system of war that Jefferson had hoped after hope to reform by the Embargo was not reformed. In the end, Jefferson came close to embracing measures which called into question almost every principle of government he professed to believe. Empire of Liberty examines Jefferson's legacy for American foreign policy in the light of several critical themes which continue to be highly significant today: the struggle between isolationists and interventionists, the historic ambivalence over the nation's role as a crusader for liberty, and the relationship between democracy and peace. Written by two distinguished scholars, this book provides invaluable insight into the classic ideas of American diplomacy.

Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Writings of Thomas Jefferson written by Thomas Jefferson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: