Jefferson Abroad
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Author |
: Michael Knox Beran |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 533 |
Release |
: 2010-05-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781439138151 |
ISBN-13 |
: 143913815X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jefferson's Demons by : Michael Knox Beran
"I have often wondered for what good end the sensations of Grief could be intended." -- Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson suffered during his life from periodic bouts of dejection and despair, shadowed intervals during which he was full of "gloomy forebodings" about what lay ahead. Not long before he composed the Declaration of Independence, the young Jefferson lay for six weeks in idleness and ill health at Monticello, paralyzed by a mysterious "malady." Similar lapses were to recur during anxious periods in his life, often accompanied by violent headaches. In Jefferson's Demons, Michael Knox Beran illuminates an optimistic man's darker side -- Jefferson as we have rarely seen him before. The worst of these moments came after his wife died in 1782. But two years later, after being dispatched to Europe, Jefferson recovered nerve and spirit in the salons of Paris, where he fell in love with a beautiful young artist, Maria Cosway. When their affair ended, Jefferson's health again broke down. He set out for the palms and temples of southern Europe, and though he did not know where the therapeutic journey would take him or where it would end, his encounter with the old civilizations of the Mediterranean was transformative. The Greeks and Romans taught him that a man could make productive use of his demons. Jefferson's immersion in the mystic truths of the Old World gave him insights into mysteries of life and art that Enlightenment philosophy had failed to supply. Beran skillfully shows how Jefferson drew on the esoteric lore he encountered to transform anxiety into action. On his return to America, Jefferson entered the most productive period of his life: He created a new political party, was elected president, and doubled the size of the country. His private labors were no less momentous...among them, the artistry of Monticello and the University of Virginia. Jefferson's Demons is an elegantly composed account of the strangeness and originality of one Founder's genius. Michael Knox Beran uncovers the maps Jefferson used to find his way out of dejection and to forge a new democratic culture for America. Here is a Jefferson who, with all his failings, remains one of his country's greatest teachers and prophets.
Author |
: Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher |
: Modern Library |
Total Pages |
: 496 |
Release |
: 1999-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0679601864 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780679601869 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thomas Jefferson Abroad by : Thomas Jefferson
Comprising letters and documents written during the five stimulating years Jefferson spent in Paris as minister to the court of Louis XVI, Thomas Jefferson Abroad offers a unique glimpse of his character and personality: Jefferson the traveler and cultural observer, Jefferson the humorist, and Jefferson the charmer of women.
Author |
: Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015043041824 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jefferson Abroad by : Thomas Jefferson
A masterly treatment of the epic 3 day Gettysburg Campaign. Complete with detailed maps, Stars in their Courses brilliantly recreates this great battle of the Civil War.
Author |
: Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015043041824 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jefferson Abroad by : Thomas Jefferson
A masterly treatment of the epic 3 day Gettysburg Campaign. Complete with detailed maps, Stars in their Courses brilliantly recreates this great battle of the Civil War.
Author |
: United States. Congress. House |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 756 |
Release |
: 1931 |
ISBN-10 |
: OSU:32437122491679 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and Rules of the House of Representatives of the United States by : United States. Congress. House
Author |
: United States. Congress. House |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1266 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105044543770 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Constitution, Jefferson's Manual and Rules of the House of Representatives of the United States, One Hundred Second Congress by : United States. Congress. House
Author |
: Charles W. Johnson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1348 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCR:31210015455288 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Constitution, Jefferson's Manual and Rules of the House of Representatives of the United States, One Hundred Seventh Congress by : Charles W. Johnson
Author |
: Jeffrey Einboden |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190844479 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190844477 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives by : Jeffrey Einboden
"On October 3, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was contacted by an unknown traveler from the American frontier, who urgently requested a private "interview" with the President, promising to disclose "a matter of momentous importance". By the next day, Jefferson held in his hands two astonishing manuscripts whose history has been lost for over two centuries. Authored by Muslims fleeing captivity in rural Kentucky, these documents delivered to the President in 1807 were penned by literate African slaves, and written entirely in Arabic. Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives reveals the untold story of two escaped West Africans in the American heartland whose Arabic writings reached a sitting U.S. President, prompting him to intervene on their behalf. Recounting a quest for emancipation that crosses borders of race, region and religion, Jeffrey Einboden unearths Arabic manuscripts that circulated among Jefferson and his prominent peers, including a document from 1780s Georgia identified as the earliest surviving example of Muslim slave authorship in the newly-formed United States. Revealing Jefferson's lifelong entanglements with Islam and captivity, Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives tracks the ascent of Arabic slave writings to the highest halls of U.S. power, while questioning why such vital legacies from the American past have been entirely forgotten."--
Author |
: Charles W. Johnson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1404 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: PURD:32754082299359 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Constitution, Jefferson's Manual and Rules of the House of Representatives of the United States, One Hundred Eighth Congress by : Charles W. Johnson
Author |
: John V. Sullivan |
Publisher |
: Government Printing Office |
Total Pages |
: 1458 |
Release |
: 2007-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0160789737 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780160789731 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and Rules of the House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress by : John V. Sullivan
Contains the fundamental source material for parliamentary procedure used in the House of Representatives. The rules were adopted on January 4, 2005.