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Title: Jefferson by Samuel K. Padover, Saul Kussiel Padover ISBN: 0-451-62797-0 Publisher: Mentor Books Pub. Date: March, 1993 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent overview of TJ's life
Comment: For those who are interested more in a chronology of Jefferson's life and less a perspective of the events of his time, this book is perfect. Somewhat preachy, probably too adulatory of Jefferson, it nevertheless strikes an excellent balance between being comprehensive yet concise.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good as a first introduction to Jefferson
Comment: Having not read the unabridged version of this biography, I cannot compare this volume to it. But Padover was certainly an authority of the first order on the man and this volume is crammed with plenty of facts. Like Douglas Freeman's Washington, however, there are no negatives to be found in Padover's Jefferson. All the players in the story wear either a pristine white hat or a muddy black one and this can often be distracting to those who desire an unbiased account (especially of the Federalist/Republican tug of war). On the whole, however, this edition will surely be of help to those who are interested in a brisk yet detailed introduction to Jefferson.
Rating: 5
Summary: "That government which governs best governs least"
Comment: Padover's "Jefferson" is rarely available in its unabridged form,
more's the pity, though. This insightful, exposing view into
the life of history's greatest American is a profound study of the human spirit,
and of our own country itself. This book is more than the story of a founding father, or some famous dead guy. Jefferson did not enjoy politics, he shunned them. It did not want to be Secretary of State, not Vice-President, and he did not want to remembered for being President. Even his tombstone bears that fact.
Jefferson sent the majority of his life in attempt to escape the public and reside in quiet amongst learning and living on Monticello, his Virginian paradise. This book, written by the paramount source of knowledge conerning Jefferson, illustrates and captions the life of quite an extraordinary man
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Title: The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment by Carl J. Richard ISBN: 0674314263 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: English Architecture, Revised Edition (World of Art) by David Watkin ISBN: 0500203385 Publisher: Thames & Hudson Pub. Date: 26 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Portable Thomas Jefferson (The Viking Portable Library) by Thomas Jefferson, Merrill D. Peterson ISBN: 0140150803 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: October, 1977 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Selected Works by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Michael Grant ISBN: 0140440992 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: September, 1960 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Synopsis of American History: Through Reconstruction by Neil R. McMillen ISBN: 1566631610 Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc. Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $22.25 |
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