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Thomas Jefferson - A Modern Prometheus (Hardcover)
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Thomas Jefferson - A Modern Prometheus (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South
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In Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus, Wilson Jeremiah Moses
provides a critical assessment of Thomas Jefferson and the
Jeffersonian influence. Scholars of American history have long
debated the legacy of Thomas Jefferson. However, Moses deviates
from other interpretations by positioning himself within an older,
'Federalist' historiographic tradition, offering vigorous and
insightful commentary on Jefferson, the man and the myth. Moses
specifically focuses on Jefferson's complexities and
contradictions. Measuring Jefferson's political accomplishments,
intellectual contributions, moral character, and other
distinguishing traits against contemporaries like George Washington
and Benjamin Franklin but also figures like Machiavelli and
Frederick the Great, Moses contends that Jefferson fell short of
the greatness of others. Yet amid his criticism of Jefferson, Moses
paints him as a cunning strategist, an impressive intellectual, and
a consummate pragmatist who continually reformulated his ideas in a
universe that he accurately recognized to be unstable, capricious,
and treacherous.
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