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Thomas Jefferson: A Life
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Combining firsthand scholarship and material drawn from the Jefferson Papers, Willard Sterne Randall calls on his skills as an investigative journalist to challenge long-held assumptions about the reasoning, motives, and works of this sage, philosopher, politician, and romantic. Exploring both Jefferson’s interior and public struggles, Randall sheds important light on Jefferson’s thoughts on slavery and his relationship with the slave Sally Hemmings, as well as Revolutionary and diplomatic intrigues.
- Print length736 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarper Perennial Modern Classics
- Publication dateFebruary 4, 2014
- Dimensions5.31 x 1.18 x 8 inches
- ISBN-109780060976170
- ISBN-13978-0060976170
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About the Author
Willard Sterne Randall is the prize-winning author of thirteen books, including Ethan Allen: His Life and Times; A Little Revenge: Benjamin Franklin at War with His Son; Thomas Jefferson: A Life; George Washington: A Life; and Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor. A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, he is a professor of history at Champlain College and lives in Burlington, Vermont.
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- ASIN : 0060976179
- Publisher : Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Publication date : February 4, 2014
- Edition : First Thus
- Language : English
- Print length : 736 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780060976170
- ISBN-13 : 978-0060976170
- Item Weight : 1.2 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.31 x 1.18 x 8 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,884,098 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #745 in American Revolution Biographies (Books)
- #1,440 in US Presidents
- #2,090 in U.S. Revolution & Founding History
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After a successful seventeen-year career as a feature writer for the Philadelphia Bulletin, magazine writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, investigative journalist for Philadelphia Magazine and stringer for Time-Life News Service, Willard Sterne Randall pursued advanced studies in history at Princeton University. Biographer of Benjamin and William Franklin, of Benedict Arnold, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Ethan Allen, he has co-authored collections of biographies and e-books with his wife, Nancy Nahra. His most recent book is Unshackling America: How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution, a history of the Revolutionary era. As a journalist, Randall won the National Magazine Award for Public Service from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, the Standard Gravure Award, the Hillman Prize, the Loeb Award and the John Hancock Prize. His Benedict Arnold biography received four national awards and was a New York Times Notable Book. Publishers Weekly chose his biography of Jefferson as one of the ten best biographies of 1993. He received the Award of Merit of the American Revolution Round Table. He taught American history at John Cabot University in Rome, the University of Vermont and Champlain College, where he is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus. He is a frequent contributor to MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, which awarded him the 2019 Thomas Fleming Prize for Outstanding Military History Writing. He lives, writes, teaches, lectures and likes to swim in Burlington, Vermont.
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