IN PURSUIT OF REASON: THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON
Written by Noble E. Jr. Cunningham
Published by Ballantine Books
in 1988
ISBN: 0345353803
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- HISTORY
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IN PURSUIT OF REASON: THE LIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON
Written by Noble E. Jr. Cunningham.
Stock no. 1330879
Softcover.
Very good condition.
A concise, comprehensive one-volume biography of one of the greatest Americans who ever lived. Paperback edition. 414 pages including index. B/w photos. ISBN: 0345353803. 12th printing. Covers are slightly edge worn with slight lifting of laminate at edges. Contents are edge browned and slightly foxed else clean.
Front cover
Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- I The Formative Years
- II Public Life and Private World
- III The Road to Revolution
- IV At Philadelphia
- V Virginia Reformer
- VI Wartime Governor of Virginia
- VII Withdrawal, Sorrow, and Return
- VIII The Scene of Europe
- IX Romantic Interlude and New Adventures
- X Witness to Revolution in France
- XI First Months at the State Department
- XII Conflict in Washington's Cabinet
- XIII A Trying Year
- XIV Renewal at Monticello
- XV Vice-President
- XVI The Election of 1800
- XVII A President in Command
- XVIII Presidential Zenith
- XIX Trials of a Second Term
- XX Closing a Political Career
- XXI The Sage of Monticello
- XXII A Final Legacy
- Notes
- Bibliographical Note
- Index