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Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty

$40.00
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802746
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Item #:
802746
Availability:
Usually ships in 2-3 business days

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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.

Hardcover. 640 pages.

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