Thomas Jefferson: Selected Writings: A Library of America Paperback Classic

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Thomas Jefferson: Selected Writings: A Library of America Paperback Classic
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Thomas Jefferson
Introduction by Tom Wicker
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:435
Dimensions(mm): Height 203,Width 130
Category/GenreMemoirs
Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781598530964
ClassificationsDewey:973.46092
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher The Library of America
Imprint The Library of America
Publication Date 6 January 2011
Publication Country United States

Description

Thomas Jefferson defined, at the moment of our nation's birth, the issues that still direct our political life. Displaying his extraordinary variety of interests and powerful and precise style, Jefferson's writings are an invaluable and incisive record of the landscape, inhabitants, life, and daily customs of America in the Revolutionary and early national eras, as well as a testimony to the brilliance of one of the most influential and controversial figures in our nation's history.

Author Biography

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1824) was the drafter of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the United States. Tom Wickeris a former political reporter and columnist forThe New York Timesand the author of several books, among them the Edgar Award-winningA Time to Die- The Attica Prison Revolt(1975) andShooting Star- The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy(2006).