Mr. Jefferson's Women

Name: Mr. Jefferson's Women
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ISBN: 9781400078578

ISBN-10: 1400078571

ISBN-13: 9781400078578

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jon Kukla

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From the acclaimed author ofA Wilderness So Immensecomes a pioneering study of Thomas Jefferson's relationships with women, both personal and political. The author of the Declaration of Independence, who wrote the words "all men are created equal," was surprisingly uncomfortable with woman. In eight chapters, Kukla examines the evidence for the founding father's youthful misogyny, beginning with his awkward courtship of Rebecca Burwell, who declined Jefferson's marriage proposal, and his unwelcome advances toward the wife of a boyhood friend. Subsequent chapters describe his decade-long marriage to Martha Wayles Skelton, his flirtation with Maria Cosway, and the still controversial…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/14/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English