Thomas Jefferson's Lives : Biographers and the Battle for History.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (354 pages)
- Jeffersonian America Series .
- Jeffersonian America Series .
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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Jefferson, Thomas,-1743-1826. Presidents-United States-Biography-History and criticism. Biographers-United States. United States-History-Revolution, 1775-1783-Historiography. United States-History-1783-1865-Historiography.