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An ambitious, perceptive portrayal of a complex man, this best-selling biography broke new ground in its exploration of Jefferson's inner life. Here for the first time we meet Jefferson as a man of feeling and passion. With a novelist's skill and meticulous scholarship, Fawn M. Brodie shows Jefferson as he wrestled with issues of revolution, religion, power, race, and love-ambivalences that exerted a subtle but powerful influence on his political writing and his decision making. The portrait that results adds a whole new depth to those of the past.
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Thomas Jefferson, Fawn McKay Brodie
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- Released
- 1974
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- Title
- Thomas Jefferson
- Subtitle
- An Intimate History
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Fawn McKay Brodie
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. (NY)
- Released
- 1974
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 591
- ISBN10
- 0393074803
- ISBN13
- 9780393074802
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, True Stories, Biographies, History, Political Science & Politics, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Politics, American History, Politicians' Biographies, Presidents
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- An ambitious, perceptive portrayal of a complex man, this best-selling biography broke new ground in its exploration of Jefferson's inner life. Here for the first time we meet Jefferson as a man of feeling and passion. With a novelist's skill and meticulous scholarship, Fawn M. Brodie shows Jefferson as he wrestled with issues of revolution, religion, power, race, and love-ambivalences that exerted a subtle but powerful influence on his political writing and his decision making. The portrait that results adds a whole new depth to those of the past.