|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910780927403321 |
|
|
Autore |
Kranish Michael |
|
|
Titolo |
Flight from Monticello [[electronic resource] ] : Thomas Jefferson at war / / Michael Kranish |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Oxford, England ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-282-38440-6 |
9786612384400 |
0-19-970555-0 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (401 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Governors - Virginia |
Presidents - United States |
Virginia History Revolution, 1775-1783 |
Virginia Politics and government 1775-1783 |
United States Politics and government 1783-1809 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Contents; Map of Virginia; Prologue; Williamsburg; Revolution; Invasion; Flight from Monticello; Acknowledgments; Notes; Suggested Reading; Index |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
When Thomas Jefferson wrote his epitaph, he listed as his accomplishments his authorship of the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia statute of religious freedom, and his founding of the University of Virginia. He did not mention his presidency or that he was second governor of the state of Virginia, in the most trying hours of the Revolution. Dumas Malone, author of the epic six-volume biography, wrote that the events of this time explain Jefferson's ""character as a man of action in a serious emergency."" Joseph Ellis, author of American Sphinx, focuses on other parts of Jefferson's |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|