Thomas Jefferson: The Revolution of IdeasOxford University Press, 04.09.2003 - 288 Seiten Thomas Jefferson designed his own tombstone, describing himself simply as "Author of the Declaration of Independence and of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia." It is in this simple epitaph that R.B. Bernstein finds the key to this enigmatic Founder--not as a great political figure, but as leader of "a revolution of ideas that would make the world over again." In Thomas Jefferson, Bernstein offers the definitive short biography of this revered American--the first concise life in six decades. Bernstein deftly synthesizes the massive scholarship on his subject into a swift, insightful, evenhanded account. Here are all of Jefferson's triumphs, contradictions, and failings, from his luxurious (and debt-burdened) life as a Virginia gentleman to his passionate belief in democracy, from his tortured defense of slavery to his relationship with Sally Hemings. Jefferson was indeed multifaceted--an architect, inventor, writer, diplomat, propagandist, planter, party leader--and Bernstein explores all these roles even as he illuminates Jefferson's central place in the American enlightenment, that "revolution of ideas" that did so much to create the nation we know today. Together with the less well-remembered points in Jefferson's thinking--the nature of the Union, his vision of who was entitled to citizenship, his dread of debt (both personal and national)--they form the heart of this lively biography. In this marvel of compression and comprehension, we see Jefferson more clearly than in the massive studies of earlier generations. More important, we see, in Jefferson's visionary ideas, the birth of the nation's grand sense of purpose. |
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... nation's core princi- ples and of a dream that has swept the world , that of independence and self - government.2 He next declared himself author of his era's most rev- olutionary statute , which denied government the authority to ...
... nation's core princi- ples and of a dream that has swept the world , that of independence and self - government.2 He next declared himself author of his era's most rev- olutionary statute , which denied government the authority to ...
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... nations would have to accept exile outside the borders of the United States . Jefferson's view of slav- ery was deeply conflicted , but his view of enslaved people of African descent , or even of free African Americans , was not . As a ...
... nations would have to accept exile outside the borders of the United States . Jefferson's view of slav- ery was deeply conflicted , but his view of enslaved people of African descent , or even of free African Americans , was not . As a ...
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... nation's debts doomed his vision of the self - sufficient , uncorrupted , agrarian republic he had fought to create . " Jefferson had a deep personal stake in the revolution of ideas that he helped to launch and that preoccupied him for ...
... nation's debts doomed his vision of the self - sufficient , uncorrupted , agrarian republic he had fought to create . " Jefferson had a deep personal stake in the revolution of ideas that he helped to launch and that preoccupied him for ...
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... nation of freemen , we must live through all time , or die by suicide.18 What the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 could not do , what nearly half a century of the cold war could not do , the events of September 11 accomplished ...
... nation of freemen , we must live through all time , or die by suicide.18 What the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 could not do , what nearly half a century of the cold war could not do , the events of September 11 accomplished ...
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Inhalt
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3 The Hard Work of Revolution 17761784 | 36 |
4 Behold me at length on the vaunted scene of Europe 17841789 | 55 |
5 The parties styled republican and federal 17891793 | 81 |
6 Touching Earth 17941797 | 105 |
7 The reign of witches 17971801 | 117 |
8 We are all republicans we are all federalists 18011805 | 135 |
9 A splendid misery 18051809 | 158 |
10 Enthusiasm and Anguish 18091826 | 170 |
Take care of me when dead | 191 |
Notes | 199 |
Chronology | 229 |
Bibliographical Essay | 235 |
Index | 244 |
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