Thomas Jefferson's Education by Alan Taylor
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a brilliant, absorbing study of Jefferson and his campaign to save Virginia through education.
"Taylor probes [Jefferson’s] ambitious mission in clear prose and with great insight and erudition" -- Annette Gordon-Reed - Atlantic
"Taylor has an important message... for a university community still haunted by Jefferson‚ s shadow... [The university‚] beginnings . . . were in every aspect inseparable from the distorting and poisonous influence of the slave society Jefferson hoped his" -- The Washington Post
"Taylor has an important message... for a university community still haunted by Jefferson‚ s shadow... [The university‚] beginnings . . . were in every aspect inseparable from the distorting and poisonous influence of the slave society Jefferson hoped his" -- The Washington Post
Alan Taylor, one of our leading historians, is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history. His many books include American Revolutions, the standard account, and, most recently, American Civil Wars. He is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Virginia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393358575 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393358577 |
| Title | Thomas Jefferson's Education |
| Author | Alan Taylor |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2020-11-20 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
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