Format:
1 Online-Ressource (320 p.)
,
20 b-w illus
ISBN:
9780300265323
Content:
A revelatory new biography of Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his ethical and spiritual life “Set aside everything you think you know about Thomas Jefferson and religion, and read this book. This is the definitive account. It is well written, well researched, judicious, and entirely convincing.”—Timothy Larsen, Wheaton College Thomas Jefferson was arguably the most brilliant and inspiring political writer in American history. But the ethical realities of his personal life and political career did not live up to his soaring rhetoric. Indeed, three tensions defined Jefferson’s moral life: democracy versus slavery, republican virtue versus dissolute consumption, and veneration for Jesus versus skepticism about Christianity. In this book Thomas S. Kidd tells the story of Jefferson’s ethical life through the lens of these tensions, including an unapologetic focus on the issue where Jefferson’s idealistic philosophy and lived reality clashed most obviously: his sexual relationship with his enslaved woman Sally Hemings. In doing so, he offers a unique perspective on one of American history’s most studied figures
Note:
In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300250060
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kidd, Thomas S., 1971 - Thomas Jefferson New Haven : Yale University Press, 2022 ISBN 9780300271058
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300250060
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826
;
Ethik
;
Religiöses Bewusstsein
;
Alltag
;
Geschichte
;
Biografie
DOI:
10.12987/9780300265323
