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Except for a few items from public papers, such as Jefferson's first inaugural address, the excerpts in Peterson's arrangement of Jeffersonian precepts come from the third president's lifetime output of thousands of letters. The source endows each selection a level of one-to-one intimacy (Peterson's notes identify the recipient of each letter) while retaining a generality Jefferson intended to the credos he was enunciating to his correspondent. Peterson categorizes Jefferson's wisdom into virtues (e.g., "patience") or attitudes (e.g., "living in the present") and is forthright in his introduction about his enthusiasm for Jefferson's philosophical musings about the conduct of life, religion, and government. His readers will be confreres sharing this interest; those more drawn to Jefferson's biography will be consulting the wrong book, for the selections are not given historical context. They stand on their own, as Jefferson hoped an enlightened, self-governing people would, and his belief in what the American Revolution represented to the world is adequately indicated by Peterson's choices. A collection to pique browsers of the Jefferson shelf. Gilbert Taylor
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“An extraordinary distillation of the though and wisdom of Thomas Jefferson.”
—MERRILL D. PETERSON, professor emeritus of history, University of Virginia, author of The Jefferson Image in the American Mind
“Seamlessly weaving Jefferson’s wisdom and lively moral imagination into discrete an dtimeless meditations, this far from common ‘commonplace book’ brings Jefferson’s thoughts alive again for a new generation of Americans.”
—FORREST CHURCH, author of The American Creed and editor of The Jefferson Bible
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Except for a few items from public papers, such as Jefferson's first inaugural address, the excerpts in Peterson's arrangement of Jeffersonian precepts come from the third president's lifetime output of thousands of letters. The source endows each selection a level of one-to-one intimacy (Peterson's notes identify the recipient of each letter) while retaining a generality Jefferson intended to the credos he was enunciating to his correspondent. Peterson categorizes Jefferson's wisdom into virtues (e.g., "patience") or attitudes (e.g., "living in the present") and is forthright in his introduction about his enthusiasm for Jefferson's philosophical musings about the conduct of life, religion, and government. His readers will be confreres sharing this interest; those more drawn to Jefferson's biography will be consulting the wrong book, for the selections are not given historical context. They stand on their own, as Jefferson hoped an enlightened, self-governing people would, and his belief in what the American Revolution represented to the world is adequately indicated by Peterson's choices. A collection to pique browsers of the Jefferson shelf. Gilbert Taylor
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Review
“An extraordinary distillation of the though and wisdom of Thomas Jefferson.”
—MERRILL D. PETERSON, professor emeritus of history, University of Virginia, author of The Jefferson Image in the American Mind
“Seamlessly weaving Jefferson’s wisdom and lively moral imagination into discrete an dtimeless meditations, this far from common ‘commonplace book’ brings Jefferson’s thoughts alive again for a new generation of Americans.”
—FORREST CHURCH, author of The American Creed and editor of The Jefferson Bible
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