Author: James Adam Bear Publisher: ISBN: Category : Furniture Languages : en Pages : 70
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Text and list of slides for talk presented at the Williamsburg Antiques Forum in January, 1975. Discusses the early influences on Thomas Jefferson's taste in art, furnishings, and architecture. Includes his detailed instructions, recorded in his account books, for the construction of specific pieces of furniture, his careful acquisition of paintings and sculpture, primarily for Monticello, and finally his contributions and influence on the architecture. Includes a separate draft copy.
Author: John Kukla Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 9781404226555 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 126
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This is an account of the life of Thomas Jefferson, primary author of the Declaration of Independence, first Secretary of State, and third president of the United States.
Author: John Micklos Jr Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1496696867 Category : Declaration of Independence desk Languages : en Pages : 49
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With the Declaration of Independence, the 13 colonies in America declared their independence from Great Britain. Virginian Thomas Jefferson, later the third president of the United States, was chosen to write it. But did he write every word? Did anyone help him? What are the differences between his first draft and the document signed by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776? Readers will discover the answers to these questions and find out more about the desk Jefferson designed and at which he wrote this important document.
Author: Leonard Wibberley Publisher: ISBN: Category : Ambassadors Languages : en Pages : 200
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The years after writing the Declaration of Independence held for Jefferson triumphant public service in Virginia, Congress, France, his wife's tragic death, and closer ties with his daughters.
Author: Jon Meacham Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0593229320 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 128
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Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Jon Meacham offers a collection of inspiring words about how to be a good citizen, from Thomas Jefferson and others, and reminds us why our country’s founding principles are still so important today. Thomas Jefferson believed in the covenant between a government and its citizens, in both the government’s responsibilities to its people and also the people’s responsibility to the republic. In this illuminating book, a project of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham presents selections from Jefferson’s writing on the subject, with an afterword by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed and comments on Jefferson’s ideas from others, including Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, Frederick Douglass, Carl Sagan, and American presidents. This curated collection revitalizes how to see an individual’s role in the world, as it explores such Jeffersonian concepts as religious freedom, the importance of a free press, public education, participation in government, and others. Meacham writes, “In an hour of twenty-first-century division and partisanship, of declining trust in institutions and of widespread skepticism about the long-term viability of the American experiment, it is instructive to return to first principles. Not, to be sure, as an exercise in nostalgia or as a flight from the reality of our own time, but as an honest effort to see, as Jefferson wrote, what history may be able to tell us about the present and the future.”
Author: Andrew Coddington Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC ISBN: 1502619253 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 130
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This founding father was the principal author of the document that would free the United States from Great Britain. He became one of the most influential presidents of the new nation. In this text, Jeffersons life and his greatest works are examined alongside the important historical events that influenced him. Students will analyze Jeffersons writings in order to understand their contemporary influence as well as their lasting influence today.
Author: Edward S. Ellis Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781330172476 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 186
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Excerpt from Thomas Jefferson: A Character Sketch No golden eagle, warm from the stamping press of the mint, is more sharply impressed with its image and superscription than was the formative period of our government by the genius and personality of Thomas Jefferson. Standing on the threshold of the nineteenth century, no one who attempted to peer down the shadowy vista, saw more clearly than he the possibilities, the perils, the pitfalls and the achievements that were within the grasp of the Nation. None was inspired by purer patriotism. None was more sagacious, wise and prudent, and none understood his countrymen better. By birth an aristocrat, by nature he was a democrat. The most learned man that ever sat in the president's chair, his tastes were the simple ones of a farmer. Surrounded by the pomp and ceremony of Washington and Adams' courts, his dress was homely. He despised titles, and preferred severe plainness of speech and the sober garb of the Quakers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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