Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
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A landmark work of biographical scholarship, Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History presents a penetrating psychological portrait of America's third president, moving far beyond the conventional hagiography that long surrounded the Founding Father. Fawn M. Brodie chronicles Jefferson's complex inner life with remarkable depth, drawing on letters, diaries, and historical records to illuminate the contradictions between his soaring ideals of liberty and the realities of his life as a slaveholder. Most controversially, the biography argues with compelling evidence for a long-denied romantic relationship between Jefferson and Sally Hemings, his enslaved woman, a claim that was groundbreaking at the time of publication in 1974 and has since been substantially supported by DNA evidence. Brodie's tone is both scholarly and deeply humanizing, treating Jefferson not as a marble monument but as a man of profound gifts and profound moral failures. The result is an essential, absorbing read for anyone seeking to understand the full, unvarnished complexity of one of history's most celebrated and contradictory figures.
Author: Fawn M. Brodie
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, Eyre Methuen
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A landmark work of biographical scholarship, Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History presents a penetrating psychological portrait of America's third president, moving far beyond the conventional hagiography that long surrounded the Founding Father. Fawn M. Brodie chronicles Jefferson's complex inner life with remarkable depth, drawing on letters, diaries, and historical records to illuminate the contradictions between his soaring ideals of liberty and the realities of his life as a slaveholder. Most controversially, the biography argues with compelling evidence for a long-denied romantic relationship between Jefferson and Sally Hemings, his enslaved woman, a claim that was groundbreaking at the time of publication in 1974 and has since been substantially supported by DNA evidence. Brodie's tone is both scholarly and deeply humanizing, treating Jefferson not as a marble monument but as a man of profound gifts and profound moral failures. The result is an essential, absorbing read for anyone seeking to understand the full, unvarnished complexity of one of history's most celebrated and contradictory figures.