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Author | : John P. Kaminski |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2005-12-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0742573516 |
Few Americans have had the profound impact on our nation as did Jefferson, and even fewer left such a wealth of sage advice. Jefferson, a talented statesman, architect, musician, and inventor, was also gifted with a pen and the elegant turn of phrase. Even his friend and rival, John Adams, said Jefferson had "the reputation of a masterly pen . . . and a happy talent of composition." Collected here are some of the third president's most memorable passages and most deftly turned expressions. "The happiest moments my heart knows," Jefferson wrote, "are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed character." Citizen Jefferson is a beautifully produced collection of quotations from Jefferson's own private correspondence—to family and friends, political allies, and rivals. It is a testament to his position as a man of letters and an American sage. To his daughter he counseled, "Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it yourself, and then all the world will love you, and I more than all the world." To a friend, "Man, once surrendering his reason . . . is like a ship without rudder." Or to his country, "I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Carefully chosen and expertly edited by Jefferson scholar Dr. John P. Kaminski, the quotations are organized by key topics for gentle browsing and indexed for quick reference. These passages reflect the best counsel that Jefferson offered his own and future generations. Citizen Jefferson is the perfect companion for those who admire the Sage of Monticello.
Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : Madison House Publishers, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
A beautifully produced collection of quotations from Jefferson's own private correspondence to family and friends.
Author | : John P. Kaminski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1994 |
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Author | : James Gilreath |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Thomas Jefferson's writings hold endless fascination for Americans and, as the international perspective ending this volume suggests, for thoughtful people worldwide. Here, Liu Zuochang's assessment of Jefferson's relevance to contemporary Chinese thinkers joins essays by American scholars on topics such as education, slavery, and the preparation for citizenship that underlies a free society as Jefferson perceived it.
Author | : Jon Meacham |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2020-06-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0593229320 |
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Jon Meacham offers a collection of inspiring words about how to be a good citizen, from Thomas Jefferson and others, and reminds us why our country’s founding principles are still so important today. Thomas Jefferson believed in the covenant between a government and its citizens, in both the government’s responsibilities to its people and also the people’s responsibility to the republic. In this illuminating book, a project of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham presents selections from Jefferson’s writing on the subject, with an afterword by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed and comments on Jefferson’s ideas from others, including Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, Frederick Douglass, Carl Sagan, and American presidents. This curated collection revitalizes how to see an individual’s role in the world, as it explores such Jeffersonian concepts as religious freedom, the importance of a free press, public education, participation in government, and others. Meacham writes, “In an hour of twenty-first-century division and partisanship, of declining trust in institutions and of widespread skepticism about the long-term viability of the American experiment, it is instructive to return to first principles. Not, to be sure, as an exercise in nostalgia or as a flight from the reality of our own time, but as an honest effort to see, as Jefferson wrote, what history may be able to tell us about the present and the future.”
Author | : George Clinton Genet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : International relations |
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Author | : James Gilreath |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781410202024 |
Contains articles that focus on citizenship and how members of society need to prepare themselves to be citizens of the American republic that Jefferson envisioned. Essays published here were selected from a conference, held at the Library of Congress May 13-15, 1993. There are four main parts: the public and private spheres, informed citizenry, influence of the Old and New Worlds, and a Republic of Citizens.
Author | : Elbert Duncan Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1942 |
Genre | : Presidents |
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Discussion of the universal applicability of TJ's ideas. -- Frank Shuffelton.
Author | : Clay S. Jenkinson |
Publisher | : Koehler Books |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2020-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781646630967 |
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the greatest idealist of the Founding Fathers of America. He believed that average citizens are up to the challenge of governing themselves. He envisioned a republic of well-educated, well-informed, engaged, and vigilant citizens. Jefferson's dream of a semi-utopian American republic has nearly been swallowed up by cynical partisanship, government gridlock, consumer materialism, and the corrosive power of money in American politics. Jefferson believed in civility, majority rule, the primacy of science and reason, and harmony in all of our public and private relations. Public humanities scholar Clay S. Jenkinson believes we can return to Jeffersonian principles both in our private lives and the public sphere. Repairing Jefferson's America is a clear and concise guide for those who wish to live more rational, purposeful, and enlightened lives.
Author | : James Gilreath |
Publisher | : Library of Congress |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 1999-05-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780160618185 |
A book of essays on the writings of Thomas Jefferson, which hold endless fascination for Americans &...for thoughtful people worldwide.