Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

by Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf

Book Overview

Thomas Jefferson is often portrayed as a hopelessly enigmatic figure--a riddle--a man so riven with contradictions that he is almost impossible to know. Lauded as the most articulate voice of American freedom and equality, even as he held people--including his own family--in bondage, Jefferson is variably described as a hypocrite, an atheist, or a simple-minded proponent of limited government who expected all Americans to be farmers forever.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871404427
• ISBN13: 9780871404428
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.4"