Thomas Jefferson Travels: Selected Writings, 1784-1789 [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1426200587 ISBN 13: 9781426200588

Casa editrice: National Geographic, 2007

Riassunto

Thomas Jefferson has inspired countless books that explore his brilliant career, his political philosophy, and his extraordinary accomplishments as a gifted leader. Endlessly inquisitive, he was both a tireless writer and one of the most cosmopolitan men of his age. Yet this collection of Jefferson's reflections on his wide-ranging travels reveals a new side of the man.

Eloquent and powerful, Thomas Jefferson's letters and travel diaries from his years abroad as the U.S. minister to France spill onto the pages of this volume in wonderful detail, covering the full range of his interests and passions. Editor Anthony Brandt has sifted through the myriad of writings from this rich period of Jefferson's career to present not only the politician and diplomat but Thomas Jefferson the lover, the father, the farmer, the architect, the man about town, the scientist, the visionary. Jefferson emerges at the end a fully dimensional man, with all his virtues, his flaws, and his extraordinary brilliance fleshed out, standing vividly before us. Thomas Jefferson formulated many of America's highest ideals. Here we see the man himself, and glimpse the world through his eyes.

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"Anthony Brandt...has shrewdly edited Jefferson's astonishing correspondence...into a compelling encounter with the mind of a great man." –Los Angeles Times

"Here, in the trees, butterflies and beggars of his journal, I...sense a real-life Jefferson... This book is important." –Times (London)


From the Hardcover edition.

L'autore

Anthony Brandt is an expert on travel who has edited more than twenty National Geographic books, including the very successful Journals of Lewis and Clark. The book review editor of Adventure magazine, he is also a contributor to Esquire, GQ, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, and other publications.

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• Editore: National Geographic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1426200587
• ISBN 13: 9781426200588
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416
• Redattore: Brandt Anthony