Thomas Jefferson's Enlightenment: English, Scottish and French Influences on the Third Us President

by Iain McLean

Thomas Jefferson's Enlightenment: English, Scottish and French Influences on the Third US President retraces Jefferson's intellectual history. His education in rural Virginia exposed him first to the Latin and Greek classics, then to the political and legal thought of opposition ('country') Whigs from 18th-century England. From his college days, he started to absorb the quite distinct views of the Scottish Enlightenment then the five years...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1666940437
• ISBN13: 9781666940435
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 238 Pages