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Thomas Jefferson: Draftsman of a Nation
Natalie Bober
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Description for Thomas Jefferson: Draftsman of a Nation
paperback. To many Americans, Thomas Jefferson is the architect of our freedom. This book takes into the Jefferson's world, to help us understand what it meant to be a man of his time. Num Pages: 376 pages, 48 b&w illustrations & 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 463.
To many Americans, Thomas Jefferson is the architect of our freedom. And yet the author of the ""Declaration of Independence"" also participated in a society that depended on slavery, and was himself the owner of slaves. How are we to reconcile this contradiction? This new life of Jefferson by Natalie S. Bober does not evade this difficult question.From the first page, we are taken into Jefferson's world, to help us understand what it meant to be a man of his time. He stands before us as a shy, freckle-faced, and, for the eighteenth century, unusually tall young man. We follow ... Read more
To many Americans, Thomas Jefferson is the architect of our freedom. And yet the author of the ""Declaration of Independence"" also participated in a society that depended on slavery, and was himself the owner of slaves. How are we to reconcile this contradiction? This new life of Jefferson by Natalie S. Bober does not evade this difficult question.From the first page, we are taken into Jefferson's world, to help us understand what it meant to be a man of his time. He stands before us as a shy, freckle-faced, and, for the eighteenth century, unusually tall young man. We follow ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813927329
SKU
V9780813927329
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Ref
99-90
About Natalie Bober
Natalie S. Bober is the author of numerous books of history for young adult readers, including Countdown to Independence: A Revolution of Ideas in England and Her American Colonies, 1760-1776 and Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution.
Reviews for Thomas Jefferson: Draftsman of a Nation
Natalie Bober's Thomas Jefferson is a gift to us all. She makes him present, alive, and accessible: a man of intellect, feeling, grief, purpose, and great imagination. - Ken Burns, documentary producer ""Natalie Bober has provided what is probably the most thorough and intellectually sophisticated narrative that any [young adult] book on the Revolution has ever attempted."" - Joseph J. ... Read more