The Quotable Jefferson (eBook)

Thomas Jefferson (Autor)

John P. Kaminski (Herausgeber)

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2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19038-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The most comprehensive book of quotations by the most quotable Founding FatherMore than any other Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson made his reputation on the brilliance of his writing. John Adams chose the 33-year-old Jefferson to draft the Declaration of Independence largely because of his masterly Pen. The genius of the Declaration and Jefferson's later writings amply confirmed Adams's judgment. Few writers have said so much on so many subjectsand said it so wellas Jefferson. The Quotable Jeffersonthe most comprehensive and authoritative book of Jefferson quotations ever publisheddemonstrates that as does no other book.Drawing primarily on The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, published by Princeton University Press, John Kaminski has carefully collected and cleverly arranged Jefferson's pronouncements on almost 500 subjects, ranging from the profound and publicthe Constitutionto the personal and peculiarcold water bathing.The Quotable Jefferson is the first book to put Jefferson's words in context with a substantial introduction, a chronology of Jefferson's life, the source of each quotation, an appendix identifying Jefferson's correspondents, and a comprehensive index. The main section of Jefferson quotations, which are arranged alphabetically by topic, is followed by three other fascinating sections of quotations: Jefferson on his contemporaries, his contemporaries on him, and Jefferson on himself.This book will delight the casual reader and browser, but it is also a serious and carefully edited reference work. Whatever the subject, if Jefferson said something memorable about it, you are likely to find it here.

Autor

John P. Kaminski is the founder and director of the Center for the Study of the American Constitution in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the director and coeditor of The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution (nineteen volumes to date). He has written or edited sixteen other books, including three on Thomas Jefferson.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.6.2018
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Aaron Burr • Abigail Adams • Acquiescence • Agriculture • Albert Gallatin • Alien and Sedition Acts • Amendment • Angelica Schuyler Church • Anguish • Anti-Federalism • Apathy • aristocracy • Articles of Confederation • Benjamin Hawkins • Benjamin Rush • bigotry • Burr (novel) • Calculation • Censure • Charles Alexandre de Calonne • Charles Cotesworth Pinckney • Charles Willson Peale • consent of the governed • Consideration • Criticism • defamation • despotism • Determination • Elbridge Gerry • erudition • Every Nation for Itself • Ex post facto law • freedom of religion • freedom of speech • General Government • George Wythe • good faith • Gouverneur Morris • habeas corpus • hatred • horatio gates • hostility • hypocrisy • Implied Powers • I Wish (manhwa) • James Maury • James Monroe • John Trumbull • Joseph Priestley • laborer • Legislature • Literature • Martha Jefferson • Martha Jefferson Randolph • Martin Van Buren • Meriwether Lewis • Monarchy • Monsieur • Multitude • Natural and legal rights • New Laws • newspaper • Notes on the State of Virginia • obstacle • of education • original intent • Our Choice • Overreaction • Patriotism • Philosopher • Philosophy • Politician • Politics • Poplar Forest • Precedent • Prejudice • Puritans • Republicanism • Richard Henry Lee • Richard Rush • ridicule • Sedition • sensibility • separation of church and state • Separation of church and state in the United States • Slavery • Superiority (short story) • sycophant • Tax • Term limit • The Philosopher • Thomas Jefferson • Thomas Jefferson Randolph • Thomas Paine • timothy pickering • Tyrant • united states declaration of independence • Whiggism • William Stephens Smith • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19038-0 / 0691190380
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19038-9 / 9780691190389