Research Catalog

Title

The Jefferson image in the American mind / Merrill D. Peterson.

Author

Peterson, Merrill D.

Publication

Charlottesville, Va. : Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation : University Press of Virginia, c1998.

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Additional Authors

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

Description

xvi, 548 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 > Influence

Note

• Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1960. With new introd.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Resurrection. The election of 1828 -- Jefferson's Memoirs -- Virginia: state rights, democracy, and slavery -- South Carolina nullification -- Democracy. The Jacksonians -- The conservatives -- The Whigs -- History. The character of Jefferson: Virginia -- The character of Jefferson: Massachusetts -- Episodes: Mecklenburg and Burr -- Henry S. Randall -- Union. Slavery and abolitionism -- The republican Jefferson -- War, the Nemesis -- Redivivus. Who was Thomas Jefferson? -- Touch the bones of Jefferson -- Republic or empire -- History. Henry Adams -- Quest for the document -- Beard and the parties -- Parrington and the Jeffersonian tradition -- Democracy II. The new Hamiltonians -- Claude Bowers and the "new Jefferson" -- Jefferson and the New Deal -- Culture. Monticello: the shrine -- The civilized man: the academy -- The Jefferson Memorial: the temple -- The Thomas Jefferson Bicentennial -- The lengthening shadow.

ISBN

0813918510 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98024052^

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Harvard Library