Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826264069
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Inaugural Addresses of President Thomas Jefferson, 1801 and 1805
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826264069
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826264069
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Jefferson
Author: John B. Boles
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465094694
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970 Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John B. Boles plumbs every facet of Thomas Jefferson's life, all while situating him amid the sweeping upheaval of his times. We meet Jefferson the politician and political thinker -- as well as Jefferson the architect, scientist, bibliophile, paleontologist, musician, and gourmet. We witness him drafting of the Declaration of Independence, negotiating the Louisiana Purchase, and inventing a politics that emphasized the states over the federal government -- a political philosophy that shapes our national life to this day. Boles offers new insight into Jefferson's actions and thinking on race. His Jefferson is not a hypocrite, but a tragic figure -- a man who could not hold simultaneously to his views on abolition, democracy, and patriarchal responsibility. Yet despite his flaws, Jefferson's ideas would outlive him and make him into nothing less than the architect of American liberty.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465094694
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970 Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John B. Boles plumbs every facet of Thomas Jefferson's life, all while situating him amid the sweeping upheaval of his times. We meet Jefferson the politician and political thinker -- as well as Jefferson the architect, scientist, bibliophile, paleontologist, musician, and gourmet. We witness him drafting of the Declaration of Independence, negotiating the Louisiana Purchase, and inventing a politics that emphasized the states over the federal government -- a political philosophy that shapes our national life to this day. Boles offers new insight into Jefferson's actions and thinking on race. His Jefferson is not a hypocrite, but a tragic figure -- a man who could not hold simultaneously to his views on abolition, democracy, and patriarchal responsibility. Yet despite his flaws, Jefferson's ideas would outlive him and make him into nothing less than the architect of American liberty.
Jefferson's First Inaugural Address
Author: United States. President (1801-1809 : Jefferson)
Publisher:
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Publisher:
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq., President of the United States
Author: Alexander Hamilton
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Lincoln's Greatest Speech
Author: Ronald C. White
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743299620
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In the tradition of Wills's "Lincoln at Gettysburg, Lincoln's Greatest Speech" combines impeccable scholarship and lively, engaging writing to reveal the full meaning of one of the greatest speeches in the nation's history.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743299620
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In the tradition of Wills's "Lincoln at Gettysburg, Lincoln's Greatest Speech" combines impeccable scholarship and lively, engaging writing to reveal the full meaning of one of the greatest speeches in the nation's history.
Memoir, correspondence and miscellanies from the papers of Thomas Jefferson
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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The Speeches, Addresses and Messages, of the Several Presidents of the United States, at the Openings of Congress and at Their Respective Inaugurations
Author: United States. President
Publisher:
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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The Partisan Republic
Author: Gerald Leonard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107024161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Provides a compelling account of early American constitutionalism in the Founding era.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107024161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Provides a compelling account of early American constitutionalism in the Founding era.
William Plumer's Memorandum of Proceedings in the United States Senate, 1803-1807
Author: William Plumer
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Notes on the State of Virginia
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Publisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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