Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh
Kidd mapped Jefferson’s religious thoughts through his correspondence with others, when he would recommend books to friends or when he would debate philosophical issues.
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After nearly two months with Thomas Jefferson involving five biographies (ten books in total) and over 5, pages of reading, I still feel I know Jefferson less well than many other revolutionary-era figures&#;including some like Alexander Hamilton who I&#;ve only encountered through his numerous appearances in various presidential biographies.
But that&#;s part of the intriguing mystery that Jefferson presents &#; even the most dedicated Jefferson scholars such as Malone and Peterson have admitted difficulty in getting to know our third president on a personal level. In his biography of Jefferson, Merrill Peterson acknowledged being mortified in confessing he still found Jefferson &#;impenetrable&#; after years of study.
Part of what seems to make Jefferson so complex is that he is not merely a two-dimensional figure. The set of internal rules governing his behavior resembles a multi-variable differential equation whose output seems maddeningly inconsistent at times. But on a basic level, Jefferson is no different than most of us &#; guided by a small number of core convictions, steered by a larger set of ge
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&#;Jefferson & His Time: Jefferson the Virginian&#; is the first of six volumes in Dumas Malone&#;s epic biography of Thomas Jefferson, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. Malone wrote the biography between and and by the time it was completed, was nearly blind. He was the oldest man ever awarded a Pulitzer when he received it in at age 83 (before the landmark work had even seen its last volume), and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in
&#;Jefferson the Virginian&#; covers the first four decades of Thomas Jefferson&#;s life, up to the point when in he was sailing across the Atlantic to become an American diplomat in Europe. During the period covered in this volume, Jefferson was a student, lawyer, legislator, author of the Declaration of Independence, governor of Virginia and was married and too-soon widowed.
Although we begin to scratch the surface on his innumerable talents and interests (were Ben Franklin never alive, Jefferson might have been viewed as our nation&#;s earliest Renaissance Man), unfortunately we never penetrate the hard shell of his exterior in order to really know him. It is unfortun
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Published in , &#;Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty&#; by John Boles is the most recent full-length biography of Thomas Jefferson. Boles is Professor of American History at Rice University and former president of the Southern Historical Association. He is also the author of a half-dozen books including &#;Masters and Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and Religion in the American South.&#;
This biography of Thomas Jefferson is uncommonly thoughtful, thorough and well organized. Boles is extremely familiar with the cross-currents of Jefferson&#;s era and exhibits admirable dexterity in distilling and conveying the most important bits of wisdom to the reader.
Boles spends much of the book portraying Jefferson as a complex man of perplexing contradictions and investigating his ideology versus his actions. Boles does not forgive him simply as a &#;man of his times&#; so much as he attempts to understand and describe Jefferson&#;s flaws within the context of his times and against his own ideals. Boles is also careful to describe Jefferson in all his forms: as a politician, diplomat, architect, inventor, farmer, slav
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