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Thomas Jefferson: America's Paradoxical Patriot
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by Alf Mapp
Sales Rank: 539472
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List Price: $19.95
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Cover Type: Paperback with 504 pages
Published by: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. November 1, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0742560171
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0742560178
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 6.7 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 1.6 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
Scholars long have noted paradoxical aspects of Jefferson's life: a slaveholder, he wrote the "Declaration of Independence"; a traditionalist, he innovated in politics; an avowed humanist, he pursued a closet theology. In this great first installment of a projected two-volume study, Mapp sifts through legend, and sometimes erroneous scholarship, in search of Jefferson. Tracing his subject's life through the presidency, he finds that underneath his public roles (statesman, architect, writer, etc.) Jefferson was a passionate artist whose creative growth accounts for many of his paradoxical views. Making fine use of abundant recent scholarship, Mapp gives us a greater appreciation of this complex Virginian who came to embody the very tensions between tradition and experiment that are the "principal source of vitality in a society." Mapp's books include The Virginia Experiment. photographs not seen by PW. BOMC featured alternate.
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A monumental reassessment of Jefferson's character and impact
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This review is from: Thomas Jefferson: A Strange Case of Mistaken Identity (Hardcover)
This is a decent book. I was truly excited about reading it. I was particularly fascinated by the author's use of the paradoxes of Jefferson's words and deeds. However, I found it hard to read due to the author's needlessly pretentious word choice. My appetence for consummating the reading of this tome was stymied by a repetitious exigence to avail myself of a dictionary due to polysyllabic profundity. ;-)
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