 | "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs" - Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination. A groundbreaking work of history that explicates Thomas Jefferson's vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery, and race. Thomas Jefferson is often portrayed as a hopelessly enigmatic figure - a riddle - a man so riven with contradictions that he is almost impossible to know. Lauded as the most articulate voice of American freedom and equality, even as he held people - including his own family - in bondage, Jefferson is variably described... - "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs" - Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination. |
