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Flight from Monticello [[electronic resource] ] : Thomas Jefferson at war / / Michael Kranish



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Autore: Kranish Michael Visualizza persona
Titolo: Flight from Monticello [[electronic resource] ] : Thomas Jefferson at war / / Michael Kranish Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford, England ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (401 p.)
Disciplina: 973.4
973.4/6092
Soggetto topico: Governors - Virginia
Presidents - United States
Soggetto geografico: Virginia History Revolution, 1775-1783
Virginia Politics and government 1775-1783
United States Politics and government 1783-1809
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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
Titolo autorizzato: Flight from Monticello  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-38440-6
9786612384400
0-19-970555-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910457017503321
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