Thomas Jefferson

Auteurs

• Christopher Hitchens

Paramètres

• Pages: 188 pages
• Temps de lecture: 7 heures

• Biographies et réflexions
• Histoire
• Nonfiction
• Philosophie
• Sciences politiques & Politique

En savoir plus sur le livre

In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father—a man conflicted by power who wrote the Declaration of Independence and acted as ambassador to France yet yearned for a quieter career in the Virginia legislature. A masterly writer, Jefferson was an awkward public speaker. A professed proponent of emancipation, he elided the issue of slavery from the Declaration of Independence and continued to own human property. A reluctant candidate, he left an indelible presidential legacy. With intelligence, insight, eloquence, and wit, Hitchens gives us an artful portrait of a complex, formative figure and his turbulent era.

Achat du livre

• Année de publication: 2009
• Reliure: (souple)