Screen LibraryThomas Jefferson's lives : biographers and the battle for history /
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University of Virginia Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Charlottesville : |
| Publication Dates: | 2019. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Jeffersonian America
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | xxvii, 311 pages ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780813942919 (hardcover) : 0813942918 (hardcover) |
| Index Number: | E332 |
| CLC: | K837.127 |
| Call Number: | K837.127/J457T-1 |
| Contents: |
Foreword / The many lives of Thomas Jefferson / "Merely personal or private, with which we have nothing to do" : Thomas Jefferson's autobiographical writings / "More loved ... and more hated" : George Tucker on Thomas Jefferson / "Dexterity and delicacy of manipulation" : biographers Henry S. Randall and James Parton / "A beautiful domestic character" : Sarah N. Randolph's The domestic life of Thomas Jefferson / Painting with a fine pencil : Henry Adams's Jefferson / "I come to bury Caesar" : Burr biographers on Jefferson / Punching the ticket : Hamilton biographers and the sins of Thomas Jefferson / Consulting the timeless oracle : the Thomas Jeffersons of Claude Bowers and Albert Jay Nock / The cosmopolitan and the curator : Gilbert Chinard, Marie Goebel Kimball, and Jefferson biography in the mid-twentieth century / The perils of definitiveness : Dumas Malone's Jefferson and his time / Merrill D. Peterson and the apostle of freedom : Thomas Jefferson and the new nation / "That woman" : Fawn Brodie and Thomas Jefferson's intimate history / A tribute to Peter Onuf / |