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Thomas Jefferson Draftsman of a Nation
Author: Natalie S. Bober

Praise for Natalie Bober's previous work:"Natalie Bober's Thomas Jefferson is a gift to us all. She makes him present, alive, and accessible: a man of intellect, feeling, grief, purpose, and great imagination." -- Ken Burns, documentary producer"Natalie Bober has provided what is ... more » probably the most thorough and intellectually sophisticated narrative that any [young adult] book on the Revolution has ever attempted." -- Joseph J. Ellis, author of American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson"Even readers raised on political cynicism will come away from this feeling stirred by this powerful, exciting story of their government's birth." -- Booklist *Starred*To many Americans, Thomas Jefferson is the architect of our freedom. And yet the author of the Declaration of Independence also participated in a society that depended on slavery, and was himself the owner of slaves. How are we to reconcile this contradiction? This new life of Jefferson by Natalie S. Bober does not evade this difficult question. From the first page, we are taken into Jefferson's world, to help us understand what it meant to be a man of his time. He stands before us as a shy, freckle-faced, and, for the eighteenth century, unusually tall young man. We follow him through a life in which he gave words to American independence, journeyed to France as ambassador, and triumphed in a bitter campaign not unlike our recent presidential elections. He served two terms in the White House, but the achievements most important to him were as the author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and as architect and founder of the University of Virginia, which stands today as a living monument to his belief in the importance to a democracy of higher education open to everyone. His belief in the "illimitable freedom of the human mind" speaks to us even today. Thomas Jefferson taught us the power of the word. He showed us that words beautifully shaped can reshape lives. The Jefferson revealed here is distinguished by his often contradictory nature but also by his optimism, his curiosity, and his exceptional sense of his own place in history. Like Bober's earlier books on Abigail Adams and the American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson: Draftsman of a Nation will appeal to students of history of all ages. This book faces the fact that Jefferson was a flawed human being -- yet insists that this does not disqualify him as a hero.

ISBN-13: 9780813927329
ISBN-10: 0813927323
Publication Date: 5/1/2008
Pages: 376
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Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Biographies & Memoirs >> Historical
Biographies & Memoirs >> Leaders & Notable People >> Presidents & Heads of State
Biographies & Memoirs >> People, A-Z >> ( J ) >> Jefferson, Thomas
History >> Americas >> United States >> Revolution & Founding
History >> Modern (16th-21st Centuries) >> 19th Century

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