Annette Gordon-Reed is the author of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hemingses of Monticello and is Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Peter S. Onuf is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He lives in Virginia.
Gordon-Reed and Onuf, both highly reputable Jefferson scholars,
strive to understand Jefferson's outlooks over his long
life...Gordon-Reed and Onuf's keen and fresh approach to Jefferson
and his ideas will engage history buffs.-- "Booklist (starred
review)"
They neither indict nor absolve Jefferson; instead, they aim to
make sense of his contradictions for modern sensibilities...A
fascinating addition to the Jefferson canon.-- "Publishers Weekly
(starred and boxed)"
This inspired collaboration takes us as close as we're likely to
get to the way Thomas Jefferson understood himself and his times.
Not content with clich�s about a man who made his world anew,
Gordon-Reed and Onuf show us the world that made the man.... Here
is Jefferson as he might have painted his own image, a
self-portrait comprised of equal parts sun and shadow.--Jane
Kamensky, author of Copley: A Life in Color
A peerless team, Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter Onuf pierce the
mysteries of Jefferson's character and at last offer a compelling
explanation of how the republican statesman and plantation
patriarch could coexist in a single soul. Jefferson's flaw was not
hypocrisy but conviction, his unswerving belief in paternalism as
empowering and beneficent.--Danielle Allen, author of Our
Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in
Defense of Equality
With characteristic insight and intellectual rigor, Annette
Gordon-Reed and Peter Onuf have produced a powerful and lasting
portrait of the mind of Thomas Jefferson. This is an essential and
brilliant book by two of the nation's foremost scholars--a book
that will, like its protagonist, endure.--Jon Meacham, author of
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
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