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Thomas Jefferson
- A Modern Prometheus
Engelsk Hardback
Thomas Jefferson
- A Modern Prometheus
Engelsk Hardback

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In Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus, Wilson Jeremiah Moses provides a critical assessment of Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian influence. Scholars of American history have long debated the legacy of Thomas Jefferson. However, Moses deviates from other interpretations by positioning himself within an older, ''Federalist'' historiographic tradition, offering vigorous and insightful commentary on Jefferson, the man and the myth. Moses specifically focuses on Jefferson''s complexities and contradictions. Measuring Jefferson''s political accomplishments, intellectual contributions, moral character, and other distinguishing traits against contemporaries like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin but also figures like Machiavelli and Frederick the Great, Moses contends that Jefferson fell short of the greatness of others. Yet amid his criticism of Jefferson, Moses paints him as a cunning strategist, an impressive intellectual, and a consummate pragmatist who continually reformulated his ideas in a universe that he accurately recognized to be unstable, capricious, and treacherous.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
518
ISBN-13:
9781108470964
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1108470963
Udg. Dato:
28 mar 2019
Længde:
35mm
Bredde:
157mm
Højde:
235mm
Forlag:
Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato:
28 mar 2019
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