Who was the "real" Thomas Jefferson? If this question has an
answer, it will probably not be revealed reading the many accounts
of his life. For two centuries biographers have provided divergent
perspectives on him as a man and conflicting appraisals of his
accomplishments. Jefferson was controversial in his own time, and
his propensity to polarize continued in the years after his death
as biographers battled to control the commanding heights of
history. To judge from their depictions, there existed many
different Thomas Jeffersons.The essays in this book explore how
individual biographers have shaped history-as well as how the
interests and preoccupations of the times in which they wrote
helped to shape their portrayals of Jefferson. In different eras
biographers presented the third president variously as a proponent
of individual rights or of majority rule, as a unifier or a fierce
partisan, and as a champion of either American nationalism or
cosmopolitanism. Conscripted to serve Whigs and Democrats,
abolitionists and slaveholders, unionists and secessionists,
Populists and Progressives, and seemingly every side of almost
every subsequent struggle, the only constant was that Jefferson's
image remained a mirror of Americans' self-conscious conceptions of
their nation's virtues, values, and vices. Thomas Jefferson's Lives
brings together leading scholars of Jefferson and his era, all of
whom embrace the challenge to assess some of the most important and
enduring accounts of Jefferson's life. Contributors:Jon Meacham,
presidential historian * Barbara Oberg, Princeton University * J.
Jefferson Looney, Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello *
Christine Coalwell McDonald, Westchester Community College * Andrew
Burstein, Louisiana State University * Jan Ellen Lewis, Rutgers
University * Richard Samuelson, California State University, San
Bernardino * Nancy Isenberg, Louisiana State University * Joanne B.
Freeman, Yale University * Brian Steele, University of Alabama at
Birmingham * Herbert Sloan, Barnard College * R. B. Bernstein, City
College of New York * Francis D. Cogliano, University of Edinburgh
* Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University * Gordon S. Wood, Brown
University.
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