Author: Stephen D. Hanson Publisher: ISBN: 9781450240222 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 0
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Many people have wondered what the Founding Fathers were thinking when they wrote the Constitution. Now you can find out directly from Thomas Jefferson. In a series of fictionalized interviews, Transcending Time with Thomas Jefferson offers an explanation of Jefferson's goals and a description of how he and his colleagues crafted a road map that would help the nation set a strong framework for future success. Author Stephen D. Hanson, an Army veteran with a deep love for his country, explores Jefferson's past and also discusses how the Constitution is being applied today. Hanson examines Jefferson's views regarding moral values and what could happen if the nation continues to stray down a path that curtails individual freedoms. Learn why freedom of the religion and the press were so important to the nation's founders and why these tenets remain relevant today. The country may have lost its way, but its people can find the way back to a path of liberty by looking to the Constitution. Find solutions to today's problems and develop a deeper understanding of America's history in Transcending Time with Thomas Jefferson.
Author: Stephen D. Hanson Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 9781450240215 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 268
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Many people have wondered what the Founding Fathers were thinking when they wrote the Constitution. Now you can find out directly from Thomas Jefferson. In a series of fictionalized interviews, "Transcending Time with Thomas Jefferson" offers an explanation of Jefferson's goals and a description of how he and his colleagues crafted a road map that would help the nation set a strong framework for future success. Author Stephen D. Hanson, an Army veteran with a deep love for his country, explores Jefferson's past and also discusses how the Constitution is being applied today. Hanson examines Jefferson's views regarding moral values and what could happen if the nation continues to stray down a path that curtails individual freedoms. Learn why freedom of the religion and the press were so important to the nation's founders and why these tenets remain relevant today. The country may have lost its way, but its people can find the way back to a path of liberty by looking to the Constitution. Find solutions to today's problems and develop a deeper understanding of America's history in "Transcending Time with Thomas Jefferson."
Author: Editors of TIME Publisher: Time Inc. Books ISBN: 1618932004 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 207
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Thomas Jefferson remains a potent influence in America more than 200 years after his birth. TIME examines his lasting and sometimes controversial legacy as revolutionary, president and diplomat through his political beliefs and battles, his extraordinary achievements, including the westward expansion of the young United States; as well as his letters and writings, from the Declaration of Independence to his own, personally edited version of the New Testament. TIME also explores Jefferson’s enduring influence on our culture, as the founding father of American architecture, our higher education system and the slow food movement--and even planting the seeds for America’s modern, flourishing wine industry.
Author: Wali Aslam Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135043280 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 192
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This book evaluates American foreign policy actions from the perspective of great power responsibility, with three case studies: Operation Iraqi Freedom, American drone strikes in Pakistan and the post- 9/11 practice of extraordinary rendition. This book argues that the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, American drone attacks in Pakistan and the practice of extraordinary rendition are the examples of irresponsible actions undertaken by the U.S. acting as a great power in international society. Focusing on a major theoretical approach of International Relations, the English School, this book considers the responsibilities of great powers in international society. It points to three obligations of great powers: to act according to the norm of legality, to act according to the norm of legitimacy, and to adhere to the principles of prudence. The author applies the criteria of legality, legitimacy and prudence, to analyse the three foreign policy endeavours of the U.S., and, developing a normative framework, clarifies the implications for future U.S. foreign policy. This book will be of strong interest to students and scholars of international relations, international relations theory, American politics, foreign policy studies, international law, South Asian studies and Middle Eastern studies.
Author: Peter S. Onuf Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 0813934230 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 437
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In The Mind of Thomas Jefferson, one of the foremost historians of Jefferson and his time, Peter S. Onuf, offers a collection of essays that seeks to historicize one of our nation’s founding fathers. Challenging current attempts to appropriate Jefferson to serve all manner of contemporary political agendas, Onuf argues that historians must look at Jefferson’s language and life within the context of his own place and time. In this effort to restore Jefferson to his own world, Onuf reconnects that world to ours, providing a fresh look at the distinction between private and public aspects of his character that Jefferson himself took such pains to cultivate. Breaking through Jefferson’s alleged opacity as a person by collapsing the contemporary interpretive frameworks often used to diagnose his psychological and moral states, Onuf raises new questions about what was on Jefferson’s mind as he looked toward an uncertain future. Particularly striking is his argument that Jefferson’s character as a moralist is nowhere more evident, ironically, than in his engagement with the institution of slavery. At once reinvigorating the tension between past and present and offering a new way to view our connection to one of our nation’s founders, The Mind of Thomas Jefferson helps redefine both Jefferson and his time and American nationhood.
Author: The Editors of TIME Publisher: ISBN: 9781618932037 Category : HISTORY Languages : en Pages :
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Thomas Jefferson remains a potent influence in America more than 200 years after his birth. TIME examines his lasting and sometimes controversial legacy as revolutionary, president and diplomat through his political beliefs and battles, his extraordinary achievements, including the westward expansion of the young United States; as well as his letters and writings, from the Declaration of Independence to his own, personally edited version of the New Testament. TIME also explores Jefferson's enduring influence on our culture, as the founding father of American architecture, our higher education system and the slow food movement--and even planting the seeds for America's modern, flourishing wine industry.
Author: Hannah Spahn Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 0813932041 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 417
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Beginning with the famous opening to the Declaration of Independence ("When in the course of human events..."), almost all of Thomas Jefferson’s writings include creative, stylistically and philosophically complex references to time and history. Although best known for his "forward-looking" statements envisioning future progress, Jefferson was in fact deeply concerned with the problem of coming to terms with the impending loss or fragmentation of the past. As Hannah Spahn shows in Thomas Jefferson, Time, and History, his efforts to promote an exceptionalist interpretation of the United States as the first nation to escape from the "crimes and calamities" of European history were complicated both by his doubts about the outcome of the American experiment and by his skepticism about the methods and morals of eighteenth-century philosophical history. Spahn approaches the conundrum of Jefferson’s Janus-faced, equally forward- and backward-oriented thought by discussing it less as a matter of personal contradiction and paradox than as the expression of a late Newtonian Enlightenment, in a period between ancient and modern modes of explaining change in time. She follows Jefferson in his creation of an influential narrative of American and global history over the course of half a century, opening avenues into a temporal and historical imagination that was different from ours, and offering new assessments of the solutions Jefferson and his generation found (or failed to find) to central moral and political problems like slavery.
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: 50minutes, Publisher: 50Minutes.com ISBN: 2806276101 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 33
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Thomas Jefferson in next to no time with this concise guide. 50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States and one of America’s founding fathers. His legacy is still visible today through the Declaration of Independence and the University of Virginia, which he founded. But his greatest achievement was one that laid the foundations for American identity; the conquest of the West. In just 50 minutes you will: • Learn about Thomas Jefferson’s life and his time as the third President of the United States • Identify his involvement in the creation of the Declaration of Independence and his other great achievements • Understand how he was responsible for doubling the size of American national territory thanks to the Louisiana Purchase and the conquest of the West ABOUT 50MINUTES.COM | History & Culture 50MINUTES.COM will enable you to quickly understand the main events, people, conflicts and discoveries from world history that have shaped the world we live in today. Our publications present the key information on a wide variety of topics in a quick and accessible way that is guaranteed to save you time on your journey of discovery.
Author: Stephen D. Hanson
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