Peter S Onuf, Francis D Cogliano

Thomas Jefferson Survives

American Independence in His Time and Ours

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Produktbeschreibung

Fifty years after signing the Declaration of Independence, John Adams reassured the nation from his deathbed, "Thomas Jefferson survives." Unaware that Jefferson had died mere hours earlier, Adams was in a larger sense correct: Jefferson had been immortalized in the American imagination. Today, Jefferson has effectively become a partisan talisman--jettisoned by the left for his moral failings, embraced and repurposed by the right as an avatar of white nationalism. Dissatisfied with the reductive clichés that now define Jefferson's legacy, Peter S. Onuf and Francis D. Cogliano restore the founding father to his historical context, elucidating in three essays how Jefferson's understanding of history shaped his responses to the crises of his time, how he conceived of the physical entity that became the United States, and how he articulated a new national identity in 1776. Through their search for understanding, Onuf and Cogliano demonstrate not only why Jefferson matters, but how his wisdom can be applied today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781324098072
• ISBN-10: 1324098074
• Artikelnr.: 75456732

Autorenporträt

Peter S. Onuf is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He is the New York Times best-selling author or coauthor of fourteen books, including, with Annette Gordon-Reed, "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs." He lives in Connecticut and Maine.