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Constitutional history United States Freedom of religion United States History 18th century Hamilton, Alexander 1757-1804 Political and social views Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Philiosophy Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Political and social views Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Relations with African Americans Pickering, Timothy 1745-1829 Political and social views Presidents United States Biography Slavery Political aspects United States History United States Politics and government 1783-1809Kidd, Thomas S.
Summary: "Thomas Jefferson was arguably the most brilliant and inspiring political writer in American history. But the ethical realities of his personal life and political career did not live up to his soaring rhetoric. Indeed, three tensions defined Jefferson's moral life: democracy versus slavery, republican virtue versus dissolute consumption, and veneration for Jesus versus skepticism about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, THOMAS KIDFerling, John E.
Summary: "A spellbinding history of the epic rivalry that shaped our republic: Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and their competing visions for America... The decade of the 1790s has been called the 'age of passion.' Fervor ran high as rival factions battled over the course of the new republic-- each side convinced that the other's goals would betray the legacy of the Revolution so recently fought...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.09 FERCunningham, Noble E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bedford/St. Martin's 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.46 CUNSpellberg, D. A. (Denise A.)
Contents: Introduction : Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an : imagining the Muslim as citizen at the founding of the United States -- The European Christian origins of negative, incorrect, curious, but sometimes accurate American ideas about Islam and Muslims, 1529-1797 --Positive European Christian precedents for the toleration of Muslims, and their presence in colonial America, 1554-1706 -- What Jefferson...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.46 SPEGordon-Reed, Annette.
Summary: Thomas Jefferson is still presented today as a hopelessly enigmatic figure, despite being written about more than any other Founding Father. Lauded as the most articulate voice of American freedom, even as he held people in bondage, Jefferson is variably described by current-day observers as a hypocrite, an atheist, and a simple-minded proponent of limited government. The authors team up to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 JEFFERSON, THOMAS GORWills, Garry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003