Jeffersonian Legacies

By Peter S. Onuf and Leonard Sadosky

Book Overview

On the occasion of Thomas Jefferson's 250th birthday, a number of today's leading historicans take a fresh look at our third president, architect of democracy for his time and still for ours. Jeffersonian Legacies reconstructs the worlds Thomas Jefferson created for himself and envisioned for his countrymen. The authors consider Jefferson's career as a slave owner, his ambiguous and controversial testimony on the institution of slavery, and his significance for the civil rights movement and contemporary race relations. Jeffersonian Legacies provides the next generation of students, scholars, and citizens a better understanding not only of Jefferson in his own world but also his influence in the shaping of ours.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813914639
• ISBN13: 9780813914633
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Elegant

Peter is perhaps the most authorative living historian on Thomas Jefferson and, in the opinion of some, has been for several decades. We live in a world where most learned people love to quote Jefferson, usually without the least bit of genuine understanding of the real context of those quotes. I have lived sufficiently long to even see and hear Arab leaders quoting Jefferson. But, to quote Jefferson is one thing and to understand Jefferson is another. It is, as Mark Twain once remarked; "The difference between a lightning bug and a bolt of lightning!"

Jefferson in many facets

Compilation of various essays written by various experts about Thomas Jefferson life and his politics as well as his psyhcology.It is not a biography but you will get all from this book, his life, his times, his politics, his philosophy. One learn many interesting things about this president and some unexpected suprises.His thought about woman and slavery, liberty, politics.

A Stellar Collection of Jefferson articles.

I'm in editor Peter Onuf's Jefferson class at the Univeristy of Virginia and this book is on the required reading list for the class. This book is an outstanding collection of essays on Jefferson the man, the forces that motivated him, and the development of the American nation during his lifetime as affected by the man. The scholarship involved approaches the subject matter from many different perspectives giving a very diverse representation. If you want to learn a wide range of points of view on Jefferson's life, this is the ideal book.