| Description |
1 online resource (180 pages) |
| Contents |
Becoming Thomas Jefferson -- Legislating independence -- Fighting for Virginians' rights -- Governing Virginia -- Embarking on diplomacy -- Succeeding Dr. Franklin -- Seeing inside the French Revolution -- Going back to old Virginia -- Splitting the cabinet -- Rusticating -- Liberating the presidency -- Retiring in Monticello -- Troubled in paradise |
| Summary |
A new and more complex portrait of Thomas Jefferson, as told by Jefferson himself. Not trusting biographers with his story and frustrated by his friends' failure to justify his role in the American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson wrote his autobiography on his own terms at the age of seventy-seven. The resulting book ends, well before his death, with his return from France at the age of forty-six. Asked for additional details concerning his life, Jefferson often claimed to have a ""decayed memory."" Fortunately, this shrewd politician, philosopher, architect, inventor, farmer, and scientist penne |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Archives
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Correspondence
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 fast |
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Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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Politics and government
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Presidents
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 -- Sources
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1789-1809 -- Sources
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United States
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Archives
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Biographies
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Personal correspondence
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Sources
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Zall, Paul M.
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| ISBN |
9780813159355 |
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0813159350 |
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