NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times Book Review ? The Washington Post ?
Entertainment Weekly ? The Seattle Times ? St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author
of American Lion and Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life an
extraordinary man and his remarkable times. Thomas Jefferson: The
Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a
great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his
era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson’s genius
was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such
is the art of power.
Thomas Jefferson hated confrontation, and yet his understanding
of power and of human nature enabled him to move men and to marshal
ideas, to learn from his mistakes, and to prevail. Passionate about
many things—women, his family, books, science, architecture,
gardens, friends, Monticello, and Paris—Jefferson loved America
most, and he strove over and over again, despite fierce opposition,
to realize his vision: the creation, survival, and success of
popular government in America. Jon Meacham lets us see Jefferson’s
world as Jefferson himself saw it, and to appreciate how Jefferson
found the means to endure and win in the face of rife partisan
division, economic uncertainty, and external threat. Drawing on
archives in the United States, England, and France, as well as
unpublished Jefferson presidential papers, Meacham presents
Jefferson as the most successful political leader of the early
republic, and perhaps in all of American history.
The father of the ideal of individual liberty, of the Louisiana
Purchase, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and of the settling of
the West, Jefferson recognized that the genius of humanity—and the
genius of the new nation—lay in the possibility of progress, of
discovering the undiscovered and seeking the unknown. From the
writing of the Declaration of Independence to elegant dinners in
Paris and in the President’s House; from political maneuverings in
the boardinghouses and legislative halls of Philadelphia and New
York to the infant capital on the Potomac; from his complicated
life at Monticello, his breathtaking house and plantation in
Virginia, to the creation of the University of Virginia, Jefferson
was central to the age. Here too is the personal Jefferson, a man
of appetite, sensuality, and passion.
The Jefferson story resonates today not least because he led his
nation through ferocious partisanship and cultural warfare amid
economic change and external threats, and also because he embodies
an eternal drama, the struggle of the leadership of a nation to
achieve greatness in a difficult and confounding world.
Advance praise for Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
“Jon Meacham resolves the bundle of contradictions that was
Thomas Jefferson by probing his love of progress and thirst for
power. This is a thrilling and affecting portrait of our first
philosopher-politician.”—Stacy Schiff
“This terrific book allows us to see the political genius of
Thomas Jefferson better than we have ever seen it before. In these
endlessly fascinating pages, Jefferson emerges with such vitality
that it seems as if he might still be alive today.”—Doris Kearns
Goodwin
關於作者：
Jon Meacham is the author, most recently, of
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, a #1 New York
Times bestseller that has been named one of the best books of
the year by The New York Times Book Review, The
Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, The Seattle
Times, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Meacham received
the Pulitzer Prize for American Lion, his bestselling 2008
biography of Andrew Jackson. He is also the author of the New
York Times bestsellers Franklin and Winston and
American Gospel. Executive editor and executive vice
president of Random House, Meacham is a contributing editor to
Time magazine, a former editor of Newsweek, and has
written for The New York Times and The Washington
Post, among other publications. He is a regular contributor on
Meet the Press, Morning Joe, and Charlie Rose.
A Fellow of the Society of American Historians, Meacham serves on
the boards of the New-York Historical Society, the Churchill
Centre, and The McCallie School. He is a former trustee and regent
of Sewanee: The University of the South, and has served on the
vestries of St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue and Trinity Wall Street
church in New York City. Born in Chattanooga in 1969, Meacham was
educated at The McCallie School and at Sewanee: The University of
the South, where he was salutatorian and Phi Beta Kappa. He began
his career as a reporter at The Chattanooga Times. He and
his wife live with their three children in Nashville and in
Sewanee.
目錄：
A NOTE ON THE TEXT
PROLOGUE. The World''s Best Hope
PART 1 THE SCION ~ BEGINNINGS TO SPRING 1774
ONE - A Fortunate Son
Two ~ What Fixed the Destinies of My Life
THREE. Roots of Revolution
FouR- Temptations and Trials
FIvE. A World of Desire and Denial
PART 2 I THE REVOLUTIONARY.
SPRING 1774 TO SUMMER 1776
six. Like a Shock of Electricity
sEvEN There Is No Peace
tlGHT, The Famous Mr. Jefferson
NINE The Course of Human Events
TEN, The Pull of Duty
PART 3 REFORMER AND GOVERNOR LATE 1776 TO 1782
ELEVEN An Agenda for Liberty
TWELVE-A Troublesome Office
rHRTEEN. Redcoats at Monticello
FOURTEEN. To Burn on Through Death
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