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Thomas Jefferson, the Classical World, and Early America (Jeffersonian America)

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 | #2331059 in Books |  University of Virginia Press |  2013-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.74 x5.98l,1.07 | File type: PDF | 328 pages

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||3 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Primary Sources are better|By wgreen|The Secondary Sources tend to be politically motivated. There is a difference between 1) knowing a subject, and 2) loving a subject. Many Jefferson scholar's loathe Jefferson, and claim that their bias is "disinterested and objective." In reality, they're ignorant. The reading is Course Work. If you don't need it for a paper, don't buy| ||This well-written, thoroughly researched, highly provocative collection of essays by eminent scholars makes a significant contribution to an understanding of Jefferson’s classicism. (Carl J. Richard, University of Louisiana at Lafayette author of

Thomas Jefferson read Latin and Greek authors throughout his life and wrote movingly about his love of the ancient texts, which he thought should be at the core of America's curriculum. Yet at the same time, Jefferson warned his countrymen not to look to the ancient world for modern lessons and deplored many of the ways his peers used classical authors to address contemporary questions. As a result, the contribution of the ancient world to the thought of America's ...

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