{"product_id":"thomas-jefferson-a-modern-prometheus-hardback-9781108470964","title":"Thomas Jefferson; A Modern Prometheus (Hardback) 9781108470964","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThomas Jefferson\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Modern Prometheus\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eProvides a critical and controversial re-assessment of Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian influence by a leading intellectual historian.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilson Jeremiah Moses (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108470964, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 March 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e518 pages, 1 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.7 x 3.5 cm, 0.87 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… offers a critical intellectual assessment of the man [Jefferson] and his influence.' G. A. Smith, Choice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus, Wilson Jeremiah Moses provides a critical assessment of Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian influence. Scholars of American history have long debated the legacy of Thomas Jefferson. However, Moses deviates from other interpretations by positioning himself within an older, 'Federalist' historiographic tradition, offering vigorous and insightful commentary on Jefferson, the man and the myth. Moses specifically focuses on Jefferson's complexities and contradictions. Measuring Jefferson's political accomplishments, intellectual contributions, moral character, and other distinguishing traits against contemporaries like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin but also figures like Machiavelli and Frederick the Great, Moses contends that Jefferson fell short of the greatness of others. Yet amid his criticism of Jefferson, Moses paints him as a cunning strategist, an impressive intellectual, and a consummate pragmatist who continually reformulated his ideas in a universe that he accurately recognized to be unstable, capricious, and treacherous.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Lincoln and historiography\u003cbr\u003e 3. Let our workshops remain at Monticello\u003cbr\u003e 4. Life, liberty, property, and peace\u003cbr\u003e 5. What is genius? 'Openness, brilliance, and leadership'\u003cbr\u003e 6. A Renaissance man in the age of the Enlightenment\u003cbr\u003e 7. Baconism and natural science\u003cbr\u003e 8. Anthropology and ethnic cleansing: white 'rubbish' blacks, and Indians\u003cbr\u003e 9. Education, religion, and social control\u003cbr\u003e 10. Women and the Count of Monticello\u003cbr\u003e 11. Debt, deference and consumption\u003cbr\u003e 12. Defining the presidency.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e], History of the Americas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of the Americas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20the%20Americas%20%5BHBJK%5D%22\"\u003eHBJK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913254986008,"sku":"9781108470964","price":56.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108470964i_e25bde9a-93cf-4b50-86bb-4b4926ecaff0.jpg?v=1696702446","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/thomas-jefferson-a-modern-prometheus-hardback-9781108470964","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}