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Editorial: Alfred a Knopf, 1997

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The author of Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams presents a balanced reassessment of the life, image, and career of Thomas Jefferson, examining his complex personality, controversies about the man and his beliefs, and his accomplishments. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

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Joseph J. Ellis is the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College. Educated at the College of William and Mary and Yale University, he served as a captain in the army and taught at West Point before coming to Mount Holyoke in 1972. He was Dean of the Faculty there for ten years. Among his previous books is Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams. The author lives in Holyoke, Massachusetts, with his wife Ellen, and three sons.

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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

Ellis, Joseph J.

Publicado por Brand: Alfred A. Knopf (1997)

ISBN 10: 0679444904 ISBN 13: 9780679444909

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Descripci�n hardcover. Condici�n: new. First Edition. 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 spotlightand not only during his active political career After 1809 his longedfor 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 celebritynow verging thanks to virulent revisionists and television documentaries on notorietyhas been inflated beyond recognition of the original personFor 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 hovers 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 antislavery 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 largea world determined to idolize him despite his foiblesFrom 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 pseudoemployer to pseudoemployees 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 navet piercing insights with selfdeception 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 allour very own sphinx. N� de ref. del art�culo: DADAX0679444904

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