In this new concise biography Thomas Jefferson historian 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".  Meer

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.  Meer

Eagerly awaited by readers of Alf Mapp's best-selling Thomas Jefferson: A Strange Case of Mistaken Identity, this final volume follows Jefferson from his inauguration as President in 1801 to his death at the age of eighty-three on July 4, 1826.  Meer

Focuses on Thomas Jefferson's role as a maker of foreign policy. This biography explores how the concept of the United States' westward expansion worked as the moving force in forming Jefferson's judgments and actions in foreign relations.  Meer

This first major study of Thomas Jefferson's reputation in nearly fifty years is concerned with Jefferson and history both as something Jefferson made and something that he sought to shape.  Meer

In Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus, Wilson Jeremiah Moses provides a critical assessment of Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian influence. Scholars of American history have long debated the legacy of Thomas Jefferson.  Meer

This book takes an original, sweeping approach to understanding Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian legacy. Through a close examination of Jefferson's character and behavior in both his public and private lives, historian Wilson Jeremiah Moses asserts that Jefferson was a man of persistent and mythic contradictions and hypocrisy.  Meer

Over the course of more than six decades as an author, journalist, and professor, Max Lerner studied and assessed many presidents, yet Thomas Jefferson received his most sustained attention.  Meer

Over the course of more than six decades as an author, journalist, and professor, Max Lerner studied and assessed many presidents, yet Thomas Jefferson received his most sustained attention.  Meer

Agrarian; confident champion of freedom and uneasy slaveholder; advocate of a government strictly limited to the needs of his time – Thomas Jefferson remains a force in our political and social thought.  Meer

In this book, Jefferson authority Andrew Holowchak guides readers through the story of the man and his monument.  Meer

Supplies extensive material making it possible for the reader to understand how Thomas Jefferson's mind spanned the vast distance separating antiquity from writers like William James and Sigmund Freud, analyzing his studies in economics, moral philosophy, history and law.  Meer

Much of the scholarship on Thomas Jefferson characterizes him as a consummate immoralist. Yet he had a keen interest in morality and much of his reading was for moral study.  Meer

Van THOMAS JEFFERSON tot PIM FORTUYN Meindert Fennema volgt in deze 'glasheldere analyse van twee eeuwen democratiedebat' (Piet de Rooy) de ontwikkeling van de theorievorming over de moderne democratie aan de hand van de 5 democratische revoluties van het einde van de 18e tot in het begin van de 20 eeuw: de 4 Atlantische in de Verenigde Staten, Nederland, Frankrijk en Haiti en de revolutie in Rusland.  Meer