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Mind of Thomas Jefferson by Peter S. Onuf (2007, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Virginia Press
ISBN-100813925789
ISBN-139780813925783
eBay Product ID (ePID)54237508
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameMind of Thomas Jefferson
SubjectUnited States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Presidents & Heads of State
Publication Year2007
TypeTextbook
AuthorPeter S. Onuf
Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography, History
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight19.2 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2006-014637
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal973.46092
SynopsisIn The Mind of Thomas Jefferson, one of the foremost historians of Jefferson and his time, Peter S. Onuf, offers a collection of essays that seeks to historicize one of our nation's founding fathers. Challenging current attempts to appropriate Jefferson to serve all manner of contemporary political agendas, Onuf argues that historians must look at Jefferson's language and life within the context of his own place and time. In this effort to restore Jefferson to his own world, Onuf reconnects that world to ours, providing a fresh look at the distinction between private and public aspects of his character that Jefferson himself took such pains to cultivate. Breaking through Jefferson's alleged opacity as a person by collapsing the contemporary interpretive frameworks often used to diagnose his psychological and moral states, Onuf raises new questions about what was on Jefferson's mind as he looked toward an uncertain future. Particularly striking is his argument that Jefferson's character as a moralist is nowhere more evident, ironically, than in his engagement with the institution of slavery. At once reinvigorating the tension between past and present and offering a new way to view our connection to one of our nation's founders, The Mind of Thomas Jefferson helps redefine both Jefferson and his time and American nationhood., Offers a collection of essays that seeks to historicize one of our nation's founding fathers. Challenging attempts to appropriate Jefferson to serve all manner of contemporary political agendas, this work argues that historians must look at Jefferson's language and life within the context of his own place and time., In The Mind of Thomas Jefferson, one of the foremost historians of Jefferson and his time, Peter S. Onuf, offers a collection of essays that seeks to historicize one of our nation?s founding fathers. Challenging current attempts to appropriate Jefferson to serve all manner of contemporary political agendas, Onuf argues that historians must look at Jefferson?s language and life within the context of his own place and time. In this effort to restore Jefferson to his own world, Onuf reconnects that world to ours, providing a fresh look at the distinction between private and public aspects of his character that Jefferson himself took such pains to cultivate. Breaking through Jefferson?s alleged opacity as a person by collapsing the contemporary interpretive frameworks often used to diagnose his psychological and moral states, Onuf raises new questions about what was on Jefferson?s mind as he looked toward an uncertain future. Particularly striking is his argument that Jefferson?s character as a moralist is nowhere more evident, ironically, than in his engagement with the institution of slavery. At once reinvigorating the tension between past and present and offering a new way to view our connection to one of our nation?s founders, The Mind of Thomas Jefferson helps redefine both Jefferson and his time and American nationhood.
LC Classification NumberE332.2.O59 2007
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