Thomas Jefferson's Education

Alan Taylor (University of Virginia)

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WW Norton & Co
20 November 2020

By turns entertaining and tragic, this elegant history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery. Thomas Jefferson shares center stage with his family and fellow planters, but at the crux are the enslaved black families on whom they depend.

Taylor's account of Jefferson's campaign to save Virginia by building the university is dramatic, a contest for power and resources rich in political maneuver and eccentricities comic and cruel.

By: Alan Taylor (University of Virginia)
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 359g
ISBN: 9780393358575
ISBN 10: 0393358577
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 20 November 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alan Taylor, twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History, is the author of American Revolutions and American Republics, prior volumes in his acclaimed continental history of the United States. He is Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Reviews for Thomas Jefferson's Education

Taylor probes [Jefferson's] ambitious mission in clear prose and with great insight and erudition. -- Annette Gordon-Reed - Atlantic Taylor has an important message... for a university community still haunted by Jefferson' s shadow... [The university'] beginnings . . . were in every aspect inseparable from the distorting and poisonous influence of the slave society Jefferson hoped his -- The Washington Post