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Thomas Jefferson's Lives : Biographers and the Battle for History.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Jeffersonian America SeriesPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (354 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813942926
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Thomas Jefferson's LivesDDC classification:
  • 973.46092
LOC classification:
  • E332.2 .T466 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Many Lives of Thomas Jefferson -- Barbara Oberg -- Part I: Memory -- 1: "Merely Personal or Private, with Which We Have Nothing to Do" -- Thomas Jefferson's Autobiographical Writings -- J. Jefferson Looney -- 2: "More Loved . . . and More Hated" -- George Tucker on Thomas Jefferson -- Christine Coalwell McDonald and Robert M. S. McDonald -- 3: "Dexterity and Delicacy of Manipulation" -- Biographers Henry S. Randall and James Parton -- Andrew Burstein -- 4: "A Beautiful Domestic Character" -- Sarah N. Randolph's The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson -- Jan Ellen Lewis -- 5: Painting with a Fine Pencil -- Henry Adams's Jefferson -- Richard Samuelson -- Part II: Rivalry -- 6: "I Come to Bury Caesar" -- Burr Biographers on Jefferson -- Nancy Isenberg -- 7: Punching the Ticket -- Hamilton Biographers and the Sins of Thomas Jefferson -- Joanne B. Freeman -- Part III: History -- 8: Consulting the Timeless Oracle -- The Thomas Jeffersons of Claude Bowers and Albert Jay Nock -- Brian Steele -- 9: The Cosmopolitan and the Curator -- Gilbert Chinard, Marie Kimball, and Jefferson Biography in the Mid-Twentieth Century -- Herbert Sloan -- 10: The Perils of Definitiveness -- Dumas Malone's Jefferson and His Time -- R. B. Bernstein -- 11: Merrill D. Peterson andthe Apostle of Freedom -- Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation -- Francis D. Cogliano -- 12: "That Woman" -- Fawn Brodie and Thomas Jefferson's Intimate History -- Annette Gordon-Reed -- Afterword -- A Tribute to Peter Onuf -- Gordon S. Wood -- Contributors -- Index -- Recent Books in the Jeffersonian America Series.
Summary: Cogliano, University of Edinburgh * Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University * Gordon S. Wood, Brown University.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Many Lives of Thomas Jefferson -- Barbara Oberg -- Part I: Memory -- 1: "Merely Personal or Private, with Which We Have Nothing to Do" -- Thomas Jefferson's Autobiographical Writings -- J. Jefferson Looney -- 2: "More Loved . . . and More Hated" -- George Tucker on Thomas Jefferson -- Christine Coalwell McDonald and Robert M. S. McDonald -- 3: "Dexterity and Delicacy of Manipulation" -- Biographers Henry S. Randall and James Parton -- Andrew Burstein -- 4: "A Beautiful Domestic Character" -- Sarah N. Randolph's The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson -- Jan Ellen Lewis -- 5: Painting with a Fine Pencil -- Henry Adams's Jefferson -- Richard Samuelson -- Part II: Rivalry -- 6: "I Come to Bury Caesar" -- Burr Biographers on Jefferson -- Nancy Isenberg -- 7: Punching the Ticket -- Hamilton Biographers and the Sins of Thomas Jefferson -- Joanne B. Freeman -- Part III: History -- 8: Consulting the Timeless Oracle -- The Thomas Jeffersons of Claude Bowers and Albert Jay Nock -- Brian Steele -- 9: The Cosmopolitan and the Curator -- Gilbert Chinard, Marie Kimball, and Jefferson Biography in the Mid-Twentieth Century -- Herbert Sloan -- 10: The Perils of Definitiveness -- Dumas Malone's Jefferson and His Time -- R. B. Bernstein -- 11: Merrill D. Peterson andthe Apostle of Freedom -- Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation -- Francis D. Cogliano -- 12: "That Woman" -- Fawn Brodie and Thomas Jefferson's Intimate History -- Annette Gordon-Reed -- Afterword -- A Tribute to Peter Onuf -- Gordon S. Wood -- Contributors -- Index -- Recent Books in the Jeffersonian America Series.

Cogliano, University of Edinburgh * Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University * Gordon S. Wood, Brown University.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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