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Total Pages : 271 pages
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Author : Max Beloff
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Total Pages : 228 pages
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Download or read book Thomas Jefferson and American Democracy written by Max Beloff and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thom Hartmann
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 1400082625
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book What Would Jefferson Do? written by Thom Hartmann and published by Crown. This book was released on 2004-07-27 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Founding Fathers were searching for the best and fairest form of government, they studied the models of Athenian democracy, the Roman republic, and the Iroquois Confederacy and created what is now called a modern liberal democracy. Today, 81 nations can be described as fully democratic. Yet in numerous countries around the world democracy has failed or is tottering, and in the United States its principles are increasingly under siege from corporate and other forces. Americans pride themselves on their democracy, but today’s legislative process often no longer reflects the vision of the Founders. In What Would Jefferson Do?, Thom Hartmann shows why democracy is not an aberration in human history but the oldest, most resilient, and most universal form of government, with roots in nature itself. He traces in particular the history of democracy in the United States, identifies the most prevalent myths about it, and offers an inspiring yet realistic plan for transforming the political landscape and reviving Jefferson’s dream before it is too late. "Hartmann has done it again. Passionately written and filled with original historical research, What Would Jefferson Do? offers important insights into the meaning and nature of democracy and what we must do to counter the warlords, theocrats, and corporate aristocrats who now place it at risk."--David C. Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World and The Post-Corporate World "A riveting and absolutely essential book for anyone who wishes to reflect upon and awaken to the real meaning of America and the hope it still offers to the world."--Jacob Needleman, author of The American Soul:Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders "A call to vigilance and action--to awaken the better angels of our democratic spirit and wrest our planet away from the corporate overlords. Infused with an optimistic spirit, What Would Jefferson Do? is a true 'patriot act' in the tradition of Thomas Paine."--Chuck Collins, United for Fair Economy, and coauthor of Wealth and Our Commonwealth "Thom Hartmann looks at the big picture and asks the hard questions. He's an important voice for reclaiming our democracy."--Paul Loeb, author of Soul of a Citizen "Thom Hartmann calls on us to take control of the helm and guide our nation back to its base of 'We the people.' Read this book for its historic grounding; heed his SOS for our future well-being."--Medea Benjamin, cofounder of Global Exchange and Codepink:Women for Peace "Thom Hartmann offers us an eye-opening view of how democracy is threatened. America needs this book now more than ever before."--Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Author : Robert M. S. McDonald
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 081393236X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Light and Liberty written by Robert M. S. McDonald and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Thomas Jefferson's status as a champion of education is widely known, the essays in Light and Liberty make clear that his efforts to enlighten fellow citizens reflected not only a love of learning but also a love of freedom. Using as a starting point Jefferson's conviction that knowledge is the basis of republican self-government, the contributors examine his educational projects not as disparate attempts to advance knowledge for its own sake but instead as a result of his unyielding, almost obsessive desire to bolster Americans' republican virtues and values. Whether by establishing schools or through broader, extra-institutional efforts to disseminate knowledge, Jefferson's endeavors embraced his vision for a dynamic and meritocratic America. He aimed not only to provide Americans with the ability to govern themselves and participate in the government of others but also to influence Americans to remake their society in accordance with his own principles. Written in clear and accessible prose, Light and Liberty reveals the startling diversity of Jefferson's attempts to rid citizens of the ignorance and vice that, in the view of Jefferson and many contemporaries, had corroded and corrupted once-great civilizations. Never wavering from his faith that "knowledge is power," Jefferson embraced an expansive understanding of education as the foundation for a republic of free and responsible individuals who understood their rights and stood ready to defend them.
Author : Flora Carley
Publisher : Independently Published
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (259 download)
Download or read book Thomas Jefferson written by Flora Carley and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-05-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the Man Behind the Legacy: Thomas Jefferson's Life Unveiled Have you ever wondered about the real person behind the grand ideals of liberty and democracy? What drove Thomas Jefferson to shape a young nation's future with such vision and passion? This biography offers an intimate and compelling look into the life of one of America's most influential Founding Fathers, revealing the complexities and contradictions that made him both a revered leader and a controversial figure. Imagine walking alongside Jefferson through the halls of Monticello, feeling the weight of his decisions during the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, and understanding the personal struggles he faced. Through rich storytelling, this book brings you closer to Jefferson, painting a vivid portrait of his triumphs and trials. Benefits of Reading This Book: Gain a deeper understanding of Jefferson's contributions to American democracy. Learn about the lesser-known aspects of his life, including his personal relationships and challenges. Discover the principles and beliefs that guided Jefferson's actions and decisions. Goals of the Book: Provide an in-depth look at Jefferson's life, from his early years to his retirement. Highlight his enduring influence on American society and political thought. Explore the controversies and criticisms that continue to shape his legacy. Intriguing Highlights: A glimpse into Jefferson's revolutionary diplomatic missions and his role in the Louisiana Purchase. The story behind the founding of the University of Virginia and Jefferson's vision for education. An exploration of his complex relationship with slavery and how it impacted his legacy. This biography addresses potential concerns head-on, offering a balanced and nuanced portrayal of Jefferson's life. It doesn't shy away from his flaws, providing an honest account that respects the reader's intelligence and curiosity. Whether you're a history enthusiast, a student, or someone looking for a thoughtful and enlightening read, this book is a perfect gift for anyone interested in the fascinating story of Thomas Jefferson. It's not just a recount of historical events, but a journey into the heart of a man who helped shape the foundation of the United States. Don't miss the opportunity to explore the life of Thomas Jefferson in a way that's both informative and engaging. Order your copy today and step into the world of one of America's greatest thinkers and leaders.
Author : Jon Meacham
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679645365
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)
Download or read book Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power written by Jon Meacham and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • Entertainment Weekly • The Seattle Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Bloomberg Businessweek In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an extraordinary man and his remarkable times. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson’s genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power. Thomas Jefferson hated confrontation, and yet his understanding of power and of human nature enabled him to move men and to marshal ideas, to learn from his mistakes, and to prevail. Passionate about many things—women, his family, books, science, architecture, gardens, friends, Monticello, and Paris—Jefferson loved America most, and he strove over and over again, despite fierce opposition, to realize his vision: the creation, survival, and success of popular government in America. Jon Meacham lets us see Jefferson’s world as Jefferson himself saw it, and to appreciate how Jefferson found the means to endure and win in the face of rife partisan division, economic uncertainty, and external threat. Drawing on archives in the United States, England, and France, as well as unpublished Jefferson presidential papers, Meacham presents Jefferson as the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all of American history. The father of the ideal of individual liberty, of the Louisiana Purchase, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and of the settling of the West, Jefferson recognized that the genius of humanity—and the genius of the new nation—lay in the possibility of progress, of discovering the undiscovered and seeking the unknown. From the writing of the Declaration of Independence to elegant dinners in Paris and in the President’s House; from political maneuverings in the boardinghouses and legislative halls of Philadelphia and New York to the infant capital on the Potomac; from his complicated life at Monticello, his breathtaking house and plantation in Virginia, to the creation of the University of Virginia, Jefferson was central to the age. Here too is the personal Jefferson, a man of appetite, sensuality, and passion. The Jefferson story resonates today not least because he led his nation through ferocious partisanship and cultural warfare amid economic change and external threats, and also because he embodies an eternal drama, the struggle of the leadership of a nation to achieve greatness in a difficult and confounding world. Praise for Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power “This is probably the best single-volume biography of Jefferson ever written.”—Gordon S. Wood “A big, grand, absorbing exploration of not just Jefferson and his role in history but also Jefferson the man, humanized as never before.”—Entertainment Weekly “[Meacham] captures who Jefferson was, not just as a statesman but as a man. . . . By the end of the book . . . the reader is likely to feel as if he is losing a dear friend. . . . [An] absorbing tale.”—The Christian Science Monitor “This terrific book allows us to see the political genius of Thomas Jefferson better than we have ever seen it before. In these endlessly fascinating pages, Jefferson emerges with such vitality that it seems as if he might still be alive today.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin
Author : B L Rayner
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019869659
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Life of Thomas Jefferson, written by B L Rayner and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative biography of one of America's most influential Founding Fathers. Rayner explores Jefferson's contributions to American democracy and his personal life and character, offering a balanced and nuanced portrait of this complex historical figure. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in American history and political philosophy. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Henry C. Dethloff
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Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Thomas Jefferson and American Democracy written by Henry C. Dethloff and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson written by Thomas Jefferson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Jefferson was mainly of English ancestry, born and educated in colonial Virginia. He graduated from the College of William & Mary and briefly practiced law, with the largest number of his cases concerning land ownership claims. During the American Revolution, he represented Virginia in the Continental Congress that adopted the Declaration, drafted the law for religious freedom as a Virginia legislator, and served as a wartime governor.
Author : Francis D. Cogliano
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444344617
Total Pages : 899 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Thomas Jefferson written by Francis D. Cogliano and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 899 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Thomas Jefferson presents a state-of-the-art assessment and overview of the life and legacy of Thomas Jefferson through a collection of essays grounded in the latest scholarship. Features essays by the leading scholars in the field, including Pulitzer Prize winners Annette Gordon-Reed and Jack Rakove Includes a section that considers Jefferson’s legacy Explores Jefferson’s wide range of interests and expertise, and covers his public career, private life, his views on democracy, and his writings Written to be accessible for the non-specialist as well as Jefferson scholars
Author : Clifford Smyth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Thomas Jefferson, the Father of American Democracy written by Clifford Smyth and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of Katy Bear's animal friends wears a different color of clothing to her birthday party.
Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300127928
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Inventing a Nation written by Gore Vidal and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times bestseller offers “an unblinking view of our national heroes by one who cherishes them, warts and all” (New York Review of Books). In Inventing a Nation, National Book Award winner Gore Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls, and the salons of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and others. We come to know these men, through Vidal’s splendid prose, in ways we have not up to now—their opinions of each other, their worries about money, their concerns about creating a viable democracy. Vidal brings them to life at the key moments of decision in the birthing of our nation. He also illuminates the force and weight of the documents they wrote, the speeches they delivered, and the institutions of government by which we still live. More than two centuries later, America is still largely governed by the ideas championed by this triumvirate. The author of Burr and Lincoln, one of the master stylists of American literature and most acute observers of American life, turns his immense literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of these formidable men
Author : Samuel K. Padover
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101153970
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Jefferson written by Samuel K. Padover and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1952-02-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An abridged version of the classic biography of the U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. This is a stirring portrait of an extraordinary American—Thomas Jefferson—third President of the United States, architect of freedom and democracy. He began his remarkable career as a lawyer, served in the Virginia House of Delegates and subsequently became Governor of Virginia, Ambassador to France, Secretary of State, and President. He wrote his own epitaph, because he hoped to be remembered for three of his contributions to the American nation—author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom—and Father of the University of Virginia. Yet, curiously enough, most of Jefferson’s life was a struggle between his desire for a quiet, scholarly life on his plantation at Monticello and the sacrifices he had to make in order to serve his county. Here, Professor Samuel K. Padover deftly reveals the personality of Jefferson, the devoted husbabnd and father, the farmer and philosopher, as well as the crises and achievements of his brilliant career as a statesman, in this absorbing, highly readable book.
Author : Claude G. Bowers
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Jefferson and Hamilton : The struggle for democracy in America written by Claude G. Bowers and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-07-27 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jefferson and Hamilton: The Struggle for Democracy in America by Claude G. Bowers offers a compelling examination of the ideological and political rivalry between two of America's most influential Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. This insightful book delves into the contrasting visions these men had for the future of the United States, shaping the course of the nation's early development. Bowers provides a detailed narrative of how Jefferson and Hamilton, despite their mutual respect, clashed on fundamental issues such as federal power, economic policy, and the role of the government. Jefferson, with his agrarian ideals, and Hamilton, with his vision of a strong central government and industrial economy, represented two distinct pathways for America's growth and governance. The book explores their debates and disagreements, illustrating how these conflicts influenced early American politics and policy. Bowers’ analysis highlights the broader implications of their struggle, reflecting on how their differing philosophies contributed to the shaping of American democracy and the political landscape of the fledgling nation. Jefferson and Hamilton is an essential read for anyone interested in American history, political theory, and the foundational debates that shaped the United States. Bowers’ engaging writing and thorough research provide a nuanced understanding of these pivotal figures and their enduring impact on the nation’s democratic ideals.
Author : Max 1913-1999 Beloff
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015111158
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (111 download)
Download or read book Thomas Jefferson and American Democracy written by Max 1913-1999 Beloff and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Richard K. Matthews
Publisher : Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Radical Politics of Thomas Jefferson written by Richard K. Matthews and published by Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1984 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Autobiography written by Thomas Jefferson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Jefferson was mainly of English ancestry, born and educated in colonial Virginia. He graduated from the College of William & Mary and briefly practiced law, with the largest number of his cases concerning land ownership claims. During the American Revolution, he represented Virginia in the Continental Congress that adopted the Declaration, drafted the law for religious freedom as a Virginia legislator, and served as a wartime governor.
