Thomas Jefferson : A Modern Prometheus Hardback
by Wilson Jeremiah (Pennsylvania State University) Moses
Part of the Cambridge Studies on the American South series
Hardback
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In Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus, Wilson Jeremiah Moses provides a critical assessment of Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian influence.
Scholars of American history have long debated the legacy of Thomas Jefferson.
However, Moses deviates from other interpretations by positioning himself within an older, 'Federalist' historiographic tradition, offering vigorous and insightful commentary on Jefferson, the man and the myth.
Moses specifically focuses on Jefferson's complexities and contradictions.
Measuring Jefferson's political accomplishments, intellectual contributions, moral character, and other distinguishing traits against contemporaries like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin but also figures like Machiavelli and Frederick the Great, Moses contends that Jefferson fell short of the greatness of others.
Yet amid his criticism of Jefferson, Moses paints him as a cunning strategist, an impressive intellectual, and a consummate pragmatist who continually reformulated his ideas in a universe that he accurately recognized to be unstable, capricious, and treacherous.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:518 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 1 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/03/2019
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- ISBN:9781108470964
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:518 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; 1 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:28/03/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108470964
