"Most blessed of the patriarchs" : Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination
by Gordon-Reed, Annette (Author), Onuf, Peter S. (Author)
Summary
"A groundbreaking work of history that explicates Thomas Jefferson's vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery, and race. Thomas Jefferson is often portrayed as a hopelessly enigmatic figure-a riddle-a man so riven with contradictions that he is almost impossible to know. Lau... Full description
- Introduction: north and south
- Part I. Patriarch
- Home
- Plantation
- Virginia
- Part II. Traveller
- France
- Looking homeward
- Politics
- Part III. Enthusiast
- Music
- Visitors
- Privacy and prayers
- Epilogue.