The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson - Rilegato

Jefferson, Thomas; Koch, Adrienne; Peden, William

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ISBN 10: 0679600620 ISBN 13: 9780679600626

Casa editrice: Modern Library, 1993

Riassunto

Gathers Jefferson's autobiography, selections from his writings on the history of Virginia, travel, and language, and selected letters

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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), the third president of the United States, left a vast literary legacy in the form of
journal entries, notes, addresses, and seventy thousand letters. Jefferson remains one of the country's most extraordinary figures;
as well as president he was a brilliant statesman, architect, scientist, naturalist, educator, and public servant. At a dinner for Nobel Prize recipients, John F. Kennedy said that his guests were "the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
This volume of his works, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden, represents many of Jefferson's most important contributions to American political thought. It includes the Autobiography,

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son aspired beyond the ambition of a nationality,
and embraced in his view the whole future of man."
--Henry Adams
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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• Editore: Modern Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679600620
• ISBN 13: 9780679600626
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 800