I Tremble for My Country: Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry

by Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler

Book Overview

Hatzenbuehler argues that Jefferson, though celebrated as a nationalist, is best understood as a member of the Virginia gentry who viewed the nation through the lens of his native "country," the Commonwealth of Virginia. Throughout his life, Jefferson was torn between his participation in a privileged order and his periodic dissent from the order's ways. In taking Virginians to task for their failure to improve Virginia society, he masked his own...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813030072
• ISBN13: 9780813030074
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"