Thomas Jefferson: Author of America by Christopher Hitchens

Thomas Jefferson: Author of America Christopher Hitchens ebook
Page: 208
ISBN: 9780060837068
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: pdf

Jon Meacham is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, and Franklin and Winston, former editor of Newsweek, and executive vice president and executive editor at Random House Publishing. It's Old Home Week in the American media. Smith has so far stood resolutely behind his gargoyle, admiring its shapely hindquarters and flinging out Thomas Jeffersonisms that he no doubt purloined from a “101 Great Quotes from Great Americans” coffee table book. Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia. €Thomas Jefferson said,” he told Thomas Jefferson was, if nothing else, a man with an excellent sense of aesthetics, and he no doubt would have Smith's hideous statue destroyed if he were in charge out in Yavapai County. If you, like me, believed that Julia Child brought French cuisine to America, you're off — nearly two centuries off. Thomas Jefferson, author of the American Declaration of Independence and the third U.S. Now Thomas Jefferson is in the news. First there was the welcome back of Abraham Lincoln (and the brouhaha over the Spielberg film). Thomas Jefferson: Author of America is part of Harper-Collins's “Eminent Lives” series for general readers, but it might be useful as a short, accessible supplementary text for high school and undergraduate students in a U.S.