Thomas Jefferson's Education
Read or Download Thomas Jefferson's Education
“No historian has more astutely investigated or more powerfully written about the early American republic than Alan Taylor. In Thomas Jefferson’s Education, Taylor adds to his previous prizewinning studies of early American politics, expansion, and arts and letters, with an examination of the founders’ vision of education, reckoning, at once, with its audacity and its timidity.†- Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States“Alan Taylor’s extraordinary new book illuminates the limits of republican reform in a society built on slavery. It is a major contribution to our understanding of Thomas Jefferson’s career as an educational reformer and to the history of democratic self-government in Virginia.†- Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor Emeritus of History, University of Virginia“With characteristic eloquence, Alan Taylor chronicles the unlikely emergence of one of the most important experiments in American education: the University of Virginia. Caught between the promise of a new nation of freedom and the reality of a declining slave society, Thomas Jefferson and his allies forged an institution at once intellectually innovative and socially conservative. Taylor’s rich, evocative book captures the surprising drama of that invention.†- Edward L. Ayers, author of The Thin Light of Freedom“A highly illuminating account…a book that refreshingly adds real substance to the abundant literature on Jefferson.†- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“An account of Jefferson's home state and university…A complex but fascinating story.†- BooklistAlan Taylor is Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at University of Virginia. He has twice won the Pulitzer Prize in history, most recently for The Internal Enemy, which was also a finalist for the National Book Award.
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar