Thomas Jefferson: Passionate Pilgrim

by Alf J. Mapp

Overview

A featured alternate Book-of-the-Month club selection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780819180537
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	11/05/1991
Pages:	445
Product dimensions:	7.18(w) x 9.38(h) x 1.58(d)

About the Author

Alf J. Mapp, Jr. is Eminent Scholar Emeritus at Old Dominion University and an internationally recognized scholar on Thomas Jefferson. His numerous publications include Faiths of Our Fathers: What America's Founding Fathers Really Believed, The Virginia Experiment, and Thomas Jefferson: America's Paradoxical Patriot.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Great Experiment Chapter 2: A Reasonable Revolutionist Chapter 3: The Battle Is Joined Chapter 4: Lonely Labor and Public Scandal Chapter 5: Wonderful Year Chapter 6: Private Loss and Public Triumph Chapter 7: "Descent into the Maelstrom" Chapter 8: Buccaneers and Rebels Chapter 9: The "Little Emperor" and the Blind Giants Chapter 10: Through the Storm Chapter 11: Measure of a President Chapter 12: Shadows on the Mountain Chapter 13: "Diffusion of Knowledge" Chapter 14: War and Friendship Chapter 15: "Of Cabbages and Kings" Chapter 16: No Royal Road Chapter 17: "A Race Between Education and Catastrophe" Chapter 18: Broad Vistas Chapter 19: Captain, Drummer, and Flagbearer Chapter 20: Imperiled Triumph Chapter 21: The Last Fourth Chapter 22: Who Is He?

Editorial Reviews

Alf Mapp's second volume on Thomas Jefferson is even better than his first. This picture of Jefferson's life, character, and achievements from the time of his presidency until his death is brilliantly revealing and sharply etched. The catholicity of his genius and his astonishing accomplishments despite waning strength, physical ills and impending financial disaster are masterfully described.

Virginius Dabney

A fine sequel to the first volume, written with clarity and style. .. the conclusion of a most ambitious Jefferson biography.

Jack McLaughlin

Alf Mapp's second volume on Thomas Jefferson is even better than his first. This picture of Jefferson's life, character, and achievements from the time of his presidency until his death is brilliantly revealing and sharply etched. The catholicity of his genius and his astonishing accomplishments despite waning strength, physical ills and impending financial disaster are masterfully described.--Virginius Dabney

A fine sequel to the first volume, written with clarity and style . . . the conclusion of a most ambitious Jefferson biography.--Jack McLaughlin, author of Jefferson and Monticello, a National Book Award nominee

A fresh interpretation. . . . No previous biography matches this one in depicting Jefferson's far-ranging and insatiable intellect, his sense of humor or the spiritual dimension of his thought.--Publishers Weekly

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