Thomas Jefferson Travels. Selected Writings 1784-1789

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: NationalGeographic
Publisher Place: Washington
Publisher Year: 2007
Edition: Reprint

Description: 388 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Thomas Jefferson has inspired countless books that explore his brilliant career, his political philosophy, and his extraordinary accomplishments as a gifted leader. Endlessly inquisitive, he was both a tireless writer and one of the most cosmopolitan men of his age. Yet this collection of Jeffersons reflections on his wide-ranging travels reveals a new side of the man. Eloquent and powerful, Thomas Jeffersons letters and travel diaries from his years abroad as the U.S. minister to France spill onto the pages of this volume in wonderful detail, covering the full range of his interests and passions. Editor Anthony Brandt has sifted through the myriad of writings from this rich period of Jeffersons career to present not only the politician and diplomat but Thomas Jefferson the lover, the father, the farmer, the architect, the man about town, the scientist, the visionary. Jefferson emerges at the end a fully dimensional man, with all his virtues, his flaws, and his extraordinary brilliance fleshed out, standing vividly before us. Thomas Jefferson formulated many of Americas highest ideals. Here we see the man himself, and glimpse the world through his eyes.

ISBN: 9781426200588