[DOWNLOAD IN @PDF] Thomas Jefferson's Education (ebook online)

[DOWNLOAD IN @PDF] Thomas Jefferson's Education (ebook online)
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Jefferson's Education
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“No historian has more astutely investigated or more powerfully written about the early American
republic than Alan Taylor. In Thomas Jeffersonâ€s Education, Taylor adds to his previous prizewinning
studies of early American politics, expansion, and arts and letters, with an examination of the foundersâ€
vision of education, reckoning, at once, with its audacity and its timidity.― - Jill Lepore, author of These
Truths: A History of the United States“Alan Taylorâ€s extraordinary new book illuminates the limits
of republican reform in a society built on slavery. It is a major contribution to our understanding of Thomas
Jeffersonâ€s career as an educational reformer and to the history of democratic self-government in
Virginia.― - Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor Emeritus of History, University of
Virginia“With characteristic eloquence, Alan Taylor chronicles the unlikely emergence of one of the
most important experiments in American education: the University of Virginia. Caught between the promise
of a new nation of freedom and the reality of a declining slave society, Thomas Jefferson and his allies
forged an institution at once intellectually innovative and socially conservative. Taylorâ€s rich, evocative
book captures the surprising drama of that invention.― - Edward L. Ayers, author of The Thin Light of
Freedom“A highly illuminating account…a book that refreshingly adds real substance to the abundant
literature on Jefferson.― - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“An account of Jefferson's home state and
university…A complex but fascinating story.― - Booklist Read more Alan Taylor is Thomas Jefferson
Foundation Professor of History at University of Virginia. He has twice won the Pulitzer Prize in history,
most recently for The Internal Enemy, which was also a finalist for the National Book Award. Read more