Principle and Interest: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt

by Herbert E. Sloan

Book Overview

This major new work looks at what debt meant to Thomas Jefferson and how that affected his political career and the early history of the American Republic. Sloan argues that Jefferson was always obsessed by debt: in the public sphere because he felt that it robbed people of their independence, and in the private because he was dogged by debt throughout his life. The book depicts Jefferson as a typical representative of the Virginia gentry, subject...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019505878X
• ISBN13: 9780195058789
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"