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Confounding father : Thomas Jefferson's image in his own time
Title
Confounding father : Thomas Jefferson's image in his own time / Robert M. S. McDonald.
ISBN
9780813938967 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813938961 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813938974 (ebook)
Publication
Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2016.
Physical Description
xiii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 08, 2017
Series
Jeffersonian America
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prologue: Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Virtue
The invention of Thomas Jefferson
The election of 1796
The "nauseous fog"
The revolution of 1800
President of the people
Race, sex, and reputation
Triumphs
"Dignified retirement"
Light, liberty, and posterity
Epilogue: the apotheosis.
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