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His Masterly Pen - A Biography of Jefferson the Writer (Hardcover)
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His Masterly Pen - A Biography of Jefferson the Writer (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R597
Discovery Miles 5 970
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As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning
biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the
life of Thomas Jefferson and his contributions as a writer. In this
unique biography, Fred Kaplan emphasizes Thomas Jefferson's genius
with language and his ability to use the power of words to inspire
and shape a nation. A man renowned for many talents, writing was
one of the major activities of the statemen's life, though much of
his best, most influential writing-with the exception of the
letters he wrote up to his death, numbering approximately
100,000-was done by 1789, when Jefferson was just forty-six. All of
his works-from his earliest correspondence; his essays and
proclamations, including A Summary View of British America, The
Declaration of Independence, and Notes on the State of Virginia;
his religious and scientific writings; his inaugural addresses; his
addresses to Indian nations; and his exchanges with Washington,
Madison, Hamilton, John and Abigail Adams, and dear friends such as
Maria Cosway-demonstrate his remarkable intelligence, prescient
wisdom, and literary flair and reveal the man in all his complex
and controversial brilliance. In His Masterly Pen, readers will
find a new appreciation of Jefferson as a whole, of his strengths
and weaknesses, and particularly of the degree to which his writing
skills-which James Madison admired as "the shining traces of his
pen"-are key to his personality and public career. Though Jefferson
could wield his pen with unrivaled power, he was also a master of
using words to both reveal and conceal from others and himself the
complications, the inconsistencies, and the contradictions between
his principles and his policies, between his head and his heart,
and between his optimistic view of human nature and the realities
of his personal situation and the world he lived in.
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