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Thomas Jefferson's lives : biographers and the battle for history /

Who was the 'real' Thomas Jefferson? If this question has an answer, it will probably not be revealed to anyone attempting to read the many accounts of his life. For two centuries, biographers have provided divergent perspectives on him as a man and conflicting appraisals of his accomplish...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McDonald, Robert M. S., 1970- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Colección:Jeffersonian America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Foreword / by Jon Meacham -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: The many lives of Thomas Jefferson / Barbara Oberg -- "Merely personal or private, with which we have nothing to do" : Thomas Jefferson's autobiographical writings / J. Jefferson Looney -- "More loved ... and more hated" : George Tucker on Thomas Jefferson / Christine Coalwell McDonald and Robert M.S. McDonald -- "Dexterity and delicacy of manipulation" : biographers Henry S. Randall and James Parton / Andrew Burstein -- "A beautiful domestic character" : Sarah N. Randolph's The domestic life of Thomas Jefferson / Jan Ellen Lewis -- Painting with a fine pencil : Henry Adams's Jefferson / Richard Samuelson -- "I come to bury Caesar" : Burr biographers on Jefferson / Nancy Isenberg -- Punching the ticket : Hamilton biographers and the sins of Thomas Jefferson / Joanne B. Freeman -- Consulting the timeless oracle : the Thomas Jeffersons of Claude Bowers and Albert Jay Nock / Brian Steele -- The cosmopolitan and the curator : Gilbert Chinard, Marie Goebel Kimball, and Jefferson biography in the mid-twentieth century / Herbert Sloan -- The perils of definitiveness : Dumas Malone's Jefferson and his time / R.B. Bernstein -- Merrill D. Peterson and the apostle of freedom : Thomas Jefferson and the new nation / Francis D. Cogliano -- "That woman" : Fawn Brodie and Thomas Jefferson's intimate history / Annette Gordon-Reed -- Afterword: A tribute to Peter Onuf / Gordon S. Wood. 
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