american sphinx character thomas di ellis joseph (240 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Good.

Condizione: good. Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!

Condizione: Good. Item in good condition and has highlighting/writing on text. Used texts may not contain supplemental items such as CDs, info-trac etc.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Top edge a bit foxed, otherwise an excellent copy. 1997 Hard Cover. xiv, 365 pp. "For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight -- and not only during his active political career. After 1809, his longed-for retirement was compromised by a steady stream of guests and tourists who made of his estate at Monticello a virtual hotel, as well as by more than one thousand letters per year, most from strangers, which he insisted on answering personally. In his twilight years Jefferson was already taking on the luster of a national icon, which was polished off by his auspicious death (on July 4, 1896); and in the subsequent seventeen decades of his celebrity--now verging, thanks to virulent revisionists and television documentaries, on notoriety--has been inflated beyond recognition of the original person. For the historian Joseph J. Ellis, the experience of writing about Jefferson was "as if a pathologist, just about to begin an autopsy, has discovered that the body on the operating table was still breathing." In American Sphinx, Ellis sifts the facts shrewdly from the legends and the rumors, treading a path between vilification and hero worship in order to formulate a plausible portrait of the man who still today "hover[s] over the political scene like one of those dirigibles cruising above a crowded football stadium, flashing words of inspiration to both teams."For, at the grass roots, Jefferson is no longer liberal or conservative, agrarian or industrialist, pro- or anti-slavery, privileged or populist. He is all things to all people. His own obliviousness to incompatible convictions within himself (which left him deaf to most forms of irony) has leaked out into the world at large -- a world determined to idolize him despite his foibles. From Ellis we learn that Jefferson sang incessantly under his breath; that he delivered only two public speeches in eight years as president, while spending ten hours a day at his writing desk; that sometimes his political sensibilities collided with his domestic agenda, as when he ordered an expensive piano from London during a boycott (and pledged to 'keep it in storage'). We see him relishing such projects as the nailery at Monticello that allowed him to interact with his slaves more palatably, as pseudo-employer to pseudo-employees. We grow convinced that he preferred to meet his lovers in the rarefied region of his mind rather than in the actual bedchamber. We watch him exhibiting both great depth and great shallowness, combining massive learning with extraordinary naivete, piercing insights with self-deception on the grandest scale. We understand why we should neither beatify him nor consign him to the rubbish heap of history, though we are by no means required to stop loving him. He is Thomas Jefferson, after all -- our very own sphinx.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. ***GREAT CONDITION***CLEAN PAGES*** light edge wear/corner bending, We specialize in non-fiction books. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram.

Ellis, Joseph J., Vintage Books (Random House), 1998, c1996, later printing, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), fine, 440 pp with appendix, notes & index, 8vo, ISBN: 0679764410, 'Sets a standard; history at its best', National Book Award winner. Biography; U.S. Presidents; U.S. History.

Ellis, Joseph J., Vintage Books (Random House), 1998, c1997, later printing, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), very near fine, 440 pp with appendix, notes & index, 8vo, ISBN: 0679764410, 'This elegant book on Jefferson sets a standard; history at its best', National Book Award winner.

Hardcover, in dust jacket. Later printing. Winner of the 1997 National Book Award for Non-Fiction. Fine in near fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. As new condition dark gray boards/green spine/black spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Jeffersonian Surge: America, 1992-93; Epilogue: The Future of an Illusion; Appendix: A Note on the Sally Hemings Scandal; Notes and Index. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER. Fourteenth printing. "For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight - and not only during his active political career. After 1809, his longed-for retirement was compromised by a steady stream of guests and tourists who made of his estate at Monticello a virtual hotel, as well as by more than one thousand letters per year, most from strangers, which he insisted on answering personally. In his twilight years Jefferson was already taking on the luster of a national icon, which was polished off by his auspicious death (on July 4, 1826); and in the subsequent seventeen decades his celebrity - now verging, thanks to virulent revisionists and television documentaries, on notoriety - has been inflated beyond recognition of the original person. For the historian Joseph J. Ellis, the experience of writing about Jefferson was 'as if a pathologist, just about to begin an autopsy, had discovered that the body on the operating table was still breathing.' In American Sphinx, Ellis sifts the facts shrewdly from the legends and the rumors, treading a path between vilification and hero worship in order to formulate a plausible portrait of the man who still today 'hover[s] over the political scene like one of those dirigibles cruising above a crowded football stadium, flashing words of inspiration to both teams." For, at the grass roots, Jefferson is no longer liberal or conservative, agrarian or industrialist, pro- or anti-slavery, privileged or populist. He is all things to all people. His own obliviousness to incompatible convictions within himself (which left him deaf to most forms of irony) has leaked out into the world at large - a world determined to idolize him despite his foibles. From Ellis we learn that Jefferson sang incessantly under his breath; that he delivered only two public speeches in eight years as president, while spending ten hours a day at his writing desk; that sometimes his political sensibilities collided with his domestic agenda, as when he ordered an expensive piano from London during a boycott (and pledged to "keep it in storage"). We see him relishing such projects as the nailery at Monticello that allowed him to interact with his slaves more palatably, as pseudo-employer to pseudo-employees. We grow convinced that he preferred to meet his lovers in the rarefied region of his mind rather than in the actual bedchamber. We watch him exhibiting both great depth and great shallowness, combining massive learning with extraordinary naivete, piercing insights with self-deception on the grandest scale. We understand why we should neither beatify him nor consign him to the rubbish heap of history, though we are by no means required to stop loving him. He is Thomas Jefferson, after all - our very own sphinx." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. 6th ed.

Very Good. Condizione: Very Good. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 Psychology.

440 p 20 cm Encuadernación editorial en rústica. Estado de conservación: Como nuevo. .

440 p 20 cm Encuadernación editorial en rústica. Estado de conservación: Como nuevo. .

Audiobook cassette. Condizione: Fine. Library Edition; 2.26 x 9.67 x 6.93 Inches; Unabridged audio. Set of 11 cassettes in clam shell case. Cassettes appear bright and fresh. Case immaculate. Fine/Like New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. pp. xiv, [3], 4-365 including index. 8vo. Eighth Printing. Inscribed on the title page to an individual and signed by the author. Dust jacket protected in a mylar sleeve, not price clipped. Dust jacket and book are in excellent condition, no marks except for the inscription. Signed by Author(s).

Full Calf. Collector's Edition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed natural calf sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. xiv, 365. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . Together with histories of the founding of the republic, since 1993 Ellis has written biographies about individual early presidents and, in 2010, a joint biography of John and Abigail Adams. Interested in how men shaped and were shaped by their times, he writes with a novelist's emphasis on character. Ellis is notable as a respected scholar whose work has also gained popular success; his biography of Jefferson and work on the Founding Fathers have been bestsellers, attaining sales of hundreds of thousands of copies. In 2004, the critic Jonathan Yardley wrote of him: "Ellis doubtless is now the most widely read scholar of the Revolutionary period, and thus probably the most influential as wellat least among the general public." In exceptionally good condition.

Hardcover. Collector's Edition, bound in leather. Embossed ownership stamp on title page; otherwise very good condition. ]. 365p. Collector's Edition, bound in leather.

paperback. Condizione: Molto buono (Very Good). . 8vo. pp. XIX + 440. . Molto buono (Very Good). . . . Book.

Softcover. First Edition; Twenty-Seventh Printing. Very Good+ in wraps. ; From the personal collection of notable photojournalist Ted Spiegel, known for his work with National Geographic and his portrait of John F. Kennedy.

1st edition / 1st printing hardback with dust jacket As New octavo xiv + 365pp., notes, index, Offers a reassessment of the life, image, and career of Thomas Jefferson, examining his complex personality, controversies about the man and his beliefs, and his accomplishments.

hardcover. Condizione: fine. no jacket. Leather bound. Like new.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A very scarce title in any condition, this Easton Press First Limited Edition is in Fine condition. The front and back covers are both in terrific condition and the gilded page edges show minor wear (see pictures of all gilt sides). There is a blank bookplate affixed to the second page. This book was published by Easton Press and would be a beautiful addition to your Easton Press collection.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 8vo. Full brown leather with gilt spine lettering & gilt design on covers. All edges gilt. Ribbon marker. Silk end-papers. 365pp. Couple very faint scratches in gilt of fore-edge, else fine.

XIV, 365 pp.; 24,5 cm. Cart. edit. con sovrac. Ex libris all'interno della copertina. Molto buono.