Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks: Poems of Nation, Family and Romantic Love Collected by America's Third President
de Jonathan Gross [Editor]
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- ISBN 10
- 1586421077
- ISBN 13
- 9781586421076
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Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States
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Steerforth, 2006-04-25. hardcover. Fine/Fine. 6x2x9. Hardcover. Bound in quarter blue paper with textured red paper boards and gilt text on the spine. Deckled fore edge. While in office from 1801 to 1809, Thomas Jefferson cut and pasted into homemade scrapbooks hundreds of poems of nation â early odes to the still coalescing republic â family, and romantic love. He gave the books as gifts to his granddaughters and for nearly 200 years it was believed the girls had compiled the collections themselves. No previous biography of Jefferson has drawn on this important resource. In unexpected ways this groundbreaking work will help demystify âthe American sphinx.â 243 of the poems that captured Jeffersonâs imagination are published here for the first time, with essays, annotations and photographs that make this historically important and revealing volume a delight to explore. Thomas Jeffersonâs Scrapbooks shows our third presidentâs taste for sentimental verse and abolitionist poems, and will modify his reputation as a strict neo-classicist. It includes a poem by Benjamin Franklin, several odes on the death of Alexander Hamilton, poems by women writers who have not been fully recovered in recent anthologies, and corrects the assumption that newspaper verse did not shape Jefferson's thinking on foreign affairs. Jefferson's interest in young American poets will surprise even his biographers who do not always include his literary tastes while in office in their studies of the man. And numerous anti-Federalist poems will correct the view of Jefferson as a reluctant politician. xiv 570pp. Beige distressed look dustjacket with red and blue text<br><br>CONDITION: Covers are unmarked. Pages are crisp and clean. Binding and text lock are tight. Dustjacket has light edge wear. Full refund if not satisfied.
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- Librería
- Shelley and Son Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 073658
- Título
- Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks: Poems of Nation, Family and Romantic Love Collected by America's Third President
- Autor
- Jonathan Gross [Editor]
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1586421077
- ISBN 13
- 9781586421076
- Editorial
- Steerforth
- Lugar de publicación
- Hanover, Nh
- Fecha de publicación
- 2006-04-25
- Tamaño
- 6x2x9
- Palabras clave
- Thomas Jefferson, Poems
- X weight
- 16 oz
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