{"product_id":"thomas-jefferson-the-art-of-power","title":"Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power","description":"\u003cp\u003eNAMED 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  Bloomberg Businessweek  In this magnificent biography  the Pulitzer Prizewinning 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. Jeffersons 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 thingswomen  his family  books  science  architecture  gardens  friends  Monticello  and ParisJefferson 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 Jeffersons 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 Drawing on archives in the United States  England  and France  as well as unpublished Jefferson presidential papers  Meacham presents Jefferson as the most successful political leader of the early republic  and perhaps in all of American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 humanityand the genius of the new nationlay 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 Presidents 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.  Praise for Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power  This is probably the best single-volume biography of Jefferson ever written.Gordon S. Wood  A big  grand  absorbing exploration of not just Jefferson and his role in history but also Jefferson the man  humanized as never before.Entertainment Weekly  Meacham captures who Jefferson was  not just as a statesman but as a man. . . . By the end of the book . . . the reader is likely to feel as if he is losing a dear friend. . . . An absorbing tale.The Christian Science Monitor  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  From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946423676981,"sku":"ByrdShop_0307990877","price":36.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780307990877.jpg?v=1769948049","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/thomas-jefferson-the-art-of-power","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}