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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. SUPERB: BRILLIANT: LUCID: CLASSIC: RARE NEW Condition Stated First Edition hardcover w/ no. line showing Fourth Printing, NEW unclipped mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & orig. $35.00 price top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW handsome rust-red paper-over-boards cover w/ titles handsomely gilt-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edges & cut-page-style "deckle" side-edging, SUPERB sepia card-stock front & back end-papers showing an early sketch of Monticello, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & blue-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior printed in Requiem on SUPERB silk-finish paper * Illustrations * 6.50" x 9.50" x 1.56", 1.28 kg, xxix+759 (788) pp. * Note on the Text (xv), Prologue: The World's Best Hope (xvii), Epilogue: All Honor to Jefferson (497), Author's Note & Acknowledgments (507), Notes (515), Bibliography (691), Illustration Credits (731), Index (737) * Named One of the Best Books of the Year: New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, Seattle Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Bloomberg Businessweek * ABOUT THE BOOK: In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of AMERICAN LION (Andrew jackson) & FRANKLIN & WINSTON brings vividly to life an extraordinary man & his remarkable times. THOMAS JEFFERSON: THE ART OF POWER gives us Jefferson as politician & president, a great & complex human ceaselessly engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was & could do both simultaneously. Such is the art of power. Thomas Jefferson hated confrontation, yet his understanding of power & human nature enabled him to move men & to marshal ideas, to learn from his mistakes & to prevail. Passionate about many things (women, his family, books, science, architecture, gardens, friends, Monticello & Paris), Jefferson loved America most & he repeatedly strove, despite fierce opposition, to realize his vision: the creation, survival & success of popular government in America. Jon Meacham lets us see Jefferson's world as Jefferson himself saw it & to appreciate how Jefferson found the means to endure & win in the face of rife partisan division, economic uncertainty, & external threat. Drawing on archives in the United States, England & France, as well as unpublished Jefferson presidential papers, Meacham presents Jefferson as the most successful political leader of the early republic, & perhaps in all of American history. The father of the ideal of individual liberty, of the Louisiana Purchase, of the Lewis & Clark expedition, & of the settling of the West, Jefferson recognized that the genius of humanity (& of the new nation) lay in the possibility of progress, of discovering the undiscovered & seeking the unknown. From the writing of the Declaration of Independence to elegant dinners in Paris & the President's House; from political maneuvers in the boardinghouses & legislative halls of Philadelphia & New York to the infant capital on the Potomac; from his complicated life at Monticello, his breathtaking Virginia home & plantation, to the creation of the University of Virginia, Jefferson was central to the age. Here too is the personal Jefferson, a man of appetite, sensuality, & passion. The Jefferson story resonates today not least because he led his nation through ferocious partisanship & cultural warfare amid economic change & external threats, & also because he embodies an eternal drama, the struggle of the leadership of a nation to achieve greatness in a difficult & confounding world. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "This is probably the best single-volume biography of Jefferson ever written." - Gordon S. Wood * "This terrific book allows us to see the political genius of Thomas Jefferson better than we have ever seen it before. In these endlessly fascinating pages, Jefferson emerges w/ such vitality that it seems as if he might still be alive today." - Doris Kearns Goodwin. Seller Inventory # 010321
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