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Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Onuf, Peter. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 362.
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 Part of the continuing interest in him comes of curiosity about a statesman as withdrawn and elusive in personality as he was clear and eloquent in words.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 ... Read more
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 Part of the continuing interest in him comes of curiosity about a statesman as withdrawn and elusive in personality as he was clear and eloquent in words.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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781881089575
SKU
V9781881089575
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99-50
About Onuf
Peter S. Onuf is Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood (2001) and coauthor (with Leonard Sadosky) of Jeffersonian America (Blackwell, 2001); editor of Jeffersonian Legacies (1993) and coeditor (with James Horn and Jan Ellen Lewis) of The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, and the ... Read more
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