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Jefferson in His Own Time : A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates

By Kevin J. Hayes

Book information

Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9781609381387, 9781609381202
LCC
E332
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1245023 bytes)
Series
Writers in Their Own Time Ser.
Pages
256\256
Time added
2023-08-03 09:41:45
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Description

In this volume, Kevin J. Hayes collects thirty accounts of Thomas Jefferson written by his granddaughters, visiting dignitaries, fellow politicians, and others who knew him as a family man, public servant, intellectual, and institution builder. The letters and reminiscences of those who knew Jefferson personally reveal him to be a warm, funny man, quite unlike the solemn statesman so often limned in biographies. To friends and enemies alike he was the model of a republican gentleman, profoundly knowledgeable in philosophy and natural history, able to converse in several languages, and capable of great wit but contemptuous of ceremony and fancy dress. Through these excerpts, we can see the nation's third president as his family knew him--a loving husband, father, and grandfather--and as his peers did, as a tireless public servant with a fondness for tall tales.

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