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Thomas Jefferson - An Intimate History

By: W.W. Norton & Company

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Historical Books (W.W. Norton & Company)

Last Stocked on 11/12/2020

Product Info

Title
Thomas Jefferson - An Intimate History
Category
Author
Fawn M. Brodie
Publish Year
2010
Pages
624
Dimensions
5.5x8.25x1.5"
NKG Part #
2147841015
Type
Softcover

Description

With a novelist's skill and a scholar's meticulous detail, Fawn M. Brodie portrays Thomas Jefferson as he wrestled with the great issues of his time: revolution, religion, power, race, and love-ambivalences that exerted a subtle but powerful influence on his political ideas and his presidency. Far advanced for its time, Brodie's biography was the first to set forth a convincing case that Thomas Jefferson was the father of children by his slave Sally Hemings. In a new introduction, Annette Gordon-Reed, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, explores the impact of Brodie's groundbreaking book and explains why it is still such a powerful account of one of our greatest and most elusive presidents.