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The Jefferson Image in the American Mind

The Jefferson Image in the American Mind PDF Author: Merrill D. Peterson
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813918518
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 572

Book Description
Since its publication in 1960, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind has become a classic of historical scholarship. In it Merrill D. Peterson charts Thomas Jefferson's influence upon American thought and imagination since his death in 1826. Peterson shows how the public attitude toward Jefferson has always paralleled the political climate of the time; the complexities of the man, his thoughts, and his deeds being viewed only in fragments by later generations. He explains how the ideas of Jefferson have been distorted, defended, pilloried, or used by virtually every leading politician, historian, and intellectual. Through most of our history, political parties have engaged in an ideological tug-of-war to see who would wear "the mantle of Jefferson."
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