Thomas Jefferson

Name: Thomas Jefferson
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780195181302

ISBN-10: 0195181301

ISBN-13: 9780195181302

Edition: 2005

Authors: R. B. Bernstein

List price: $21.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Semester Rental: $19.09 Due date: 8/14/2024

Rental notice: supplementary materials (access codes, CDs, etc.) are not guaranteed with rental orders.

Buy used: $6.95

Buy new: $17.96

Marketplace

4 new & used from $2.80

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

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,…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 8.35" wide x 5.12" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School. Bernstein has written, edited, or co-edited nineteen books on American constitutional and legal history, including Thomas Jefferson.



Introduction



A Young Gentleman of Virginia (1743-1774)



"We hold these truths..." (1763-1776)



The Hard Work of Revolution (1776-1784)



"Behold me at length on the vaunted scene of Europe!" (1784-1789)



"The parties styled republican and federal" (1789-1793)



Touching Earth (1794-1797)



"The reign of witches" (1797-1801)



"We are all republicans, we are all federalists" (1801-1805)



"A splendid misery" (1805-1809)



Enthusiasm and Anguish (1809-1826)


Epilogue: "Take care of me when dead..."


Notes


Chronology


Bibliographical Essay


Index