"Most blessed of the patriarchs" : Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination

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Label

"Most blessed of the patriarchs" : Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination

Title remainder

Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination

Statement of responsibility

Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter S. Onuf

Title variation

• Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination
• Empire of the imagination

Creator

• Gordon-Reed, Annette

Author

• Gordon-Reed, Annette

Subject

• Presidents -- United States -- Philosophy
• Philosophy -- United States -- 1743-1826
• Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Philosophy
• Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Political and social views
• Presidents -- United States -- Political and social views

Language

eng

Summary

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed teams up with the country's leading Jefferson scholar, Peter S. Onuf, to present an absorbing and revealing character study that finally clarifies the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson. Tracing Jefferson's development and maturation from his youth to his old age, the authors explore what they call the "empire" of Jefferson's imagination--his expansive state of mind born of the intellectual influences and life experiences that led him into public life as a modern avatar of the enlightenment, who often likened himself to an ancient figure--"the most blessed of the patriarchs."

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

973.4/6092

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

E332.2

LC item number

.G669 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult