Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The Extraordinary Library of Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker, Governor of Pennsylvania
Author: The Extraordinary Library of Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker ... to be Sold ... Dec. 14, 1905
Author: Samuel Whitaker PennypackerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
(The) Extraordinary Library of Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker
Author: Samuel Whitaker PennypackerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
The Extraordinary Library of Samuel W. Pennypacker
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Author: New York Public Library. Reference DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1090
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Rare Book Division
Author: New York Public Library. Rare Book DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.
Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Author: New York Public Library. Reference DeptPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The Road to Monticello
Author: Kevin J. HayesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019971908X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 749
Book Description
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. In The Road to Monticello, Kevin J. Hayes fills this important gap by offering a lively account of Jefferson's spiritual and intellectual development, focusing on the books and ideas that exerted the most profound influence on him. Moving chronologically through Jefferson's life, Hayes reveals the full range and depth of Jefferson's literary passions, from the popular "small books" sold by traveling chapmen, such as The History of Tom Thumb, which enthralled him as a child; to his lifelong love of Aesop's Fables and Robinson Crusoe; his engagement with Horace, Ovid, Virgil and other writers of classical antiquity; and his deep affinity with the melancholy verse of Ossian, the legendary third-century Gaelic warrior-poet. Drawing on Jefferson's letters, journals, and commonplace books, Hayes offers a wealth of new scholarship on the print culture of colonial America, reveals an intimate portrait of Jefferson's activities beyond the political chamber, and reconstructs the president's investigations in such different fields of knowledge as law, history, philosophy and natural science. Most importantly, Hayes uncovers the ideas and exchanges which informed the thinking of America's first great intellectual and shows how his lifelong pursuit of knowledge culminated in the formation of a public offering, the "academic village" which became UVA, and his more private retreat at Monticello. Gracefully written and painstakingly researched, The Road to Monticello provides an invaluable look at Jefferson's intellectual and literary life, uncovering the roots of some of the most important--and influential--ideas that have informed American history.