| The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson Contributor(s): Boorstin, Daniel J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0226064972 ISBN-13: 9780226064970 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $29.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 1993 Annotation: In this classic work by one of America's most widely read historians, Daniel J. Boorstin demonstrates why and how, on the 250th anniversary of his birth, Thomas Jefferson continues to speak to us. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Methodology - History | United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern |
| Dewey: 101 |
| LCCN: 93017196 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.28" W x 7.99" (0.75 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this classic work by one of America's most distinguished historians, Daniel Boorstin enters into Thomas Jefferson's world of ideas. By analysing writings of 'the Jeffersonian Circle, ' Boorstin explores concepts of God, nature, equality, toleration, education and government in order to illuminate their underlying world view. The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson demonstrates why on the 250th anniversary of his birth, this American leader's message has remained relevant to our national crises and grand concerns. The volume is too subtle, too rich in ideas for anyone to do justice to it in brief summary, too heavily documented and too carefully wrought for anyone to dismiss its thesis. . . . It is a major contribution not only to Jefferson studies but to American intellectual history. . . . All who work in the history of ideas will find themselves in Mr. Boorstin's debt.--Richard Hofstadter, South Atlantic Monthly |