Thomas Jefferson
1st ed.
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Word Count
52,500 words, Guess
Page Count
210 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1082982M
- ISBN-100945612389
- OCLC Control Number29908772
- OCLC Control Numberthomasjefferson0000risj
- Library of Congress Control Number94006614
and 2 more
- LibraryThing549782
- Goodreads1629247
Classifications
- DDC973.4/6/092
- LCCE332 .R57 1994
Description
Perhaps the most hotly debated character in American history, Thomas Jefferson stands as an enigma representing different and of ten contradictory ideas. That one man, for example, could author the Declaration of Independence and simultaneously own slaves or that he could recoil at the expansion of the federal government but later double the size of the country in a pen stroke has caused historians to question the true meaning of Jefferson's contribution to America's founding. This brief sketch of Jefferson answers many of the apparent contradictions of his fruitful life. Specifically, the author finds continuity in Jefferson's evolving philosophy of political economy. Because Jefferson was not a man intellectually tied to any single ideology, he was fully capable of embracing competing "persuasions" that seem to us today incompatible. The author shows how Jefferson's rhetoric was more a matter of time and circumstance than an element of absolute belief and demonstrates that Jefferson was not only a facile thinker but also a consummate politician.
Subjects
Series Statement
- American profiles
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