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Historical person
1743–1826
Thomas Jefferson was an American revolutionary statesman, principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third president. His administration completed the Louisiana Purchase, but his political language of liberty existed alongside lifelong slaveholding and territorial expansion.
Thomas Jefferson also held the offices or ranks of Vice President of the United States, United States Secretary of State, United States Ambassador to France, and Governor of Virginia. Thomas Jefferson was born in Shadwell and died in Monticello.
Barbara Hambly’s Patriot Hearts approaches Thomas Jefferson through the women affected by the founding generation, especially Sally Hemings, whose life reveals the gulf between Jefferson’s language of liberty and the realities of enslavement. Jeff Shaara’s Rise to Rebellion follows Jefferson as colonial protest hardens into independence and he becomes one of the political voices of revolution. Gore Vidal’s Inventing a Nation evaluates Jefferson alongside Washington and Adams as a founder whose ideals, rivalries and constitutional choices shaped the new republic. Hourly History’s Lewis and Clark Expedition places the western expedition within Jefferson’s presidential ambitions for knowledge, commerce and territorial expansion. Alexander Hamilton sets Jefferson against Hamilton in the struggle over finance, federal power and the political direction of the early United States.
Series
Jeff Shaara’s two-volume American Revolution sequence follows the colonies from the Boston Massacre and political resistance of the early 1770s through the British surrender at Yorktown. Rise to Rebellion concentrates on the transformation of lawyers, merchants and provincial leaders into revolutionaries; The Glorious Cause follows the Continental Army…
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