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Christopher Hitchens
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Thomas Jefferson: Author of America |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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160 |
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2005-05-19 |
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0060598964 |
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Harper Lives |
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0.55 pounds |
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0.83 x 5.0 x 7.13 inches |
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American First |
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Language:Chinese.HardCover. Pub the Date: May. 2005 Pages: 208 in Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers In the this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson. Leading journalist and withsocial critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and plane suddenly went interpretation of our Founding Father. Situating of Jefferson within the context of America's evolution and tracing his legacy over the past two hundred years. Hitchens ings the character of Jefferson to life as a man of his time and also as a symbolic figure beyond it.Conflicted by power. Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and acted as Minister to France yet yearned for a quieter career in the Virginia legislature. Predicting that slavery would shape the future of America's development. this professed proponent of emancipation elided the issue in the Declaration and continued to own human property. An e...
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