Author:
Moses, Wilson Jeremiah, 1942- author.
ImprintCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Descriptionxxi, 500 pages ; 24 cm.
Note:Lincoln and historiography -- Let our workshops remain at Monticello -- Life, liberty, property, and peace -- What is genius? "Openness, brilliance, and leadership" -- A Renaissance man in the age of the Enlightenment -- Baconism and natural science -- Anthropology and ethnic cleansing: white "rubbish" blacks, and Indians -- Education, religion, and social control -- Women and the count of Monticello -- Debt, deference and consumption -- Defining the presidency.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Provides a critical and controversial re-assessment of Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian influence by a leading intellectual historian.
