Road to Monticello : The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson

English

ISBN: 019989583X

EAN: 9780199895830

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads Of State/History / United States / General/

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Release Date: 07/31/2012

Synopsis: Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer-a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life of our most literary president. The Road to Monticello fills this gap by offering a detailed account of Jeffersons spiritual and intellectual development, focusing on the books and ideas dial exerted the most profound influence on him. Drawing on letters! journals, and commonplace books, Hayes offers a wealth of new scholarship on the culture of colonial America as he reconstructs Jeffersons investigations in such different fields-of knowledge as law, history, philosophy and natural science. Gracefully written and painstakingly researched, The Road to Monticello sketches an intimate portrait of Jeffersons intellectual and literary life, uncovering the roots of some of the most important-and influential-ideas in American history. Book jacket.

Road to Monticello : The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.9 inches

Width: 6.13 inches

Length: 9.25 inches

Weight: 34.5 oz

Pages: 752