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: Andrew Coddington Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC ISBN: 1502619245 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: Andrea Pelleschi Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1448880602 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 24
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Arguably one of Americas most brilliant and curious minds to date, Thomas Jefferson lived in a time and place that was in desperate need of someone who could envision a different future for colonial America and then provide an achievable framework for that future to take shape and prosper. He wrote the Declaration of Independence and helped ensure that a Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution among many other amazing contributions to Americas history. The story of this important founding father, presented in the style of a graphic novel, will engage all readers and will inspire a lifelong interest in history.
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: Thomas Jefferson Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9780742521162 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 376
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Virtually no subject--politics, slavery, religion, gardening, music, architecture, natural history, or science to name a few--escaped the interest and attention of Thomas Jefferson. Through nearly 800 excerpts of Jefferson's writing, ranging in length from one sentence to nearly a page, Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts, allows readers to share in Jefferson's greatest triumphs and achievements and reflects on the moments that truly tested the very fiber of his soul, publicly and privately. From the glory of crafting the Declaration of Independence and assuming the mantle of leadership as the Republic's third president, through his moral struggle with slavery and the agony of losing his young wife and daughter, Jerry Holmes chronicles Jefferson's life through his own words. Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts will fascinate both the serious Jefferson scholar as well as curious newcomers.
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