{"product_id":"thomas-jefferson-draftsman-of-a-nation-9780813926322","title":"Thomas Jefferson: Draftsman of a Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003ePraise for Natalie Bobers previous work: \"Natalie Bobers Thomas Jefferson is a gift to us all. She makes him present  alive  and accessible: a man of intellect  feeling  grief  purpose  and great imagination.\"Ken Burns  documentary producer \"Natalie Bober has provided what is probably the most thorough and intellectually sophisticated narrative that any young adult book on the Revolution has ever attempted.\" Joseph J. Ellis  author of American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson \"Even readers raised on political cynicism will come away from this feeling stirred by this powerful  exciting story of their governments birth.\"Booklist Starred To many Americans  Thomas Jefferson is the architect of our freedom. And yet the author of the Declaration of Independence also participated in a society that depended on slavery  and was himself the owner of slaves. How are we to reconcile this contradiction? This new life of Jefferson by Natalie S. Bober does not evade this difficult question. From the first page  we are taken into Jeffersons world  to help us understand what it meant to be a man of his time. He stands before us as a shy  freckle-faced  and  for the eighteenth century  unusually tall young man. We follow him through a life in which he gave words to American independence  journeyed to France as ambassador  and triumphed in a bitter campaign not unlike our recent presidential elections. He served two terms in the White House  but the achievements most important to him were as the author of the Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom  and as architect and founder of the University of Virginia  which stands today as a living monument to his belief in the importance to a democracy of higher education open to everyone. His belief in the \"illimitable freedom of the human mind\" speaks to us even today. Thomas Jefferson taught us the power of the word. He showed us that words beautifully shaped can reshape lives. The Jefferson revealed here is distinguished by his often contradictory nature but also by his optimism  his curiosity  and his exceptional sense of his own place in history. Like Bobers earlier books on Abigail Adams and the American Revolution  Thomas Jefferson: Draftsman of a Nation will appeal to students of history of all ages. This book faces the fact that Jefferson was a flawed human beingyet insists that this does not disqualify him as a hero.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647153430581,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813926327","price":34.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813926322.jpg?v=1781689455","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/thomas-jefferson-draftsman-of-a-nation-9780813926322","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}