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Jefferson on Jefferson /

A new and more complex portrait of Thomas Jefferson, as told by Jefferson himself. Not trusting biographers with his story and frustrated by his friends' failure to justify his role in the American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson wrote his autobiography on his own terms at the age of seventy-seven...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Autres auteurs: Zall, Paul M.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2002]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Becoming Thomas Jefferson
  • Legislating independence
  • Fighting for Virginians' rights
  • Governing Virginia
  • Embarking on diplomacy
  • Succeeding Dr. Franklin
  • Seeing inside the French Revolution
  • Going back to old Virginia
  • Splitting the cabinet
  • Rusticating
  • Liberating the presidency
  • Retiring in Monticello
  • Troubled in paradise.