Thomas Jefferson, Adrienne Koch, William Peden

Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson

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The Thomas Jefferson Bible

The Thomas Jefferson Bible: The Life And Morals of Jesus of Nazareth is a publication originally compiled by President Thomas Jefferson in the early 19th century. In Jefferson's attempt to organize the gospels in order, he created this book which ...

Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson

In 1784 Thomas Jefferson moved to the sophisticated and exhilarating city of Paris, where he spent the next five years as minister from the new United States of America. These were formative years for France, for the United States, and for Jeffers...

The Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson Bible

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JEFFERSON BIBLE What Thomas Jefferson Selected as THE LIFE AND MORALS OF JESUS OF NAZARETH

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The Quotable Jefferson

Jefferson: Political Writings

Thomas Jefferson is among the most important and controversial of American political thinkers: his influence (libertarian, democratic, participatory, and agrarian-republican) is still felt today. A prolific writer, Jefferson left 18,000 letters, N...

The Jefferson Bible

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The Jefferson Bible

A uniquely attractive, compact edition of Thomas Jefferson's classic abridgment of the Bible, in which Jefferson sculpted the words and ideas of Christ into a resounding moral philosophy. ''To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.' -Thomas Jefferson, 1803 ' With these words, written to a personal friend, Thomas Jefferson began one of the most audacious religious experiments in American history. On and off for the next seventeen years (including his term in the White House), Jefferson cut and pasted the philosophy of Jesus Christ, as recorded in Scripture, into one compact statement. He purposefully omitted any references to the virgin birth, miraculous healings, demonic possession, or supernatural events of any kind. His aim was to distinguish the moral philosophy of Christ from the religion that was later created around Christ. This hardcover replica of 'The Jefferson Bible restores to print a handsome, immensely

The Jefferson Bible

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Thomas Jefferson

With a novelists skill and a scholars meticulous detail, Fawn M. Brodie portrays Thomas Jefferson as he wrestled with the great issues of his time: revolution, religion, power, race, and loveambivalences that exerted a subtle but powerful influenc...

Thomas Jefferson

A revelatory new biography of Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his ethical and spiritual life "Kidd's biography may well be the best treatment of Jefferson's religious and moral life available, and certainly it is among the few to take those...

Thomas Jefferson

To many Americans, Thomas Jefferson is the architect of our freedom. And yet the author of the ""Declaration of Independence"" also participated in a society that depended on slavery, and was himself the owner o...

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson designed his own tombstone, describing himself simply as "Author of the Declaration of Independence and of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia." It is in this simple epita...

Thomas Jefferson

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William Carlos Williams

Paterson is both a place-the New Jersey city in whom the person (the poet's own life) and the public (the history of the region) are combined. Originally four books (published individually between 1946 and 1951), the structure of Paterson (in Dr. ...

Adrienne Salinger: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms

The new edition of Salinger's ever-relevant series of 1980s and '90s teenagers in their bedrooms Bedrooms contain the past, the present and the future; they are sites of continual transformation. Popular culture and fashion continually change and ...