The Jefferson Image in the American MindOxford University Press, 1962 - 548 pages "Since its publication in 1960, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind has become a classic of historical scholarship. In it Merrill D. Peterson charts Thomas Jefferson's influence upon American thought and imagination since his death in 1826. Peterson's focus is "not primarily with the truth or falsity of the image either as a whole or in its parts, but rather with its illuminations of the evolving culture and its shaping power. It is posterity's configuration of Jefferson. Even more, however, it is a sensitive reflector, through several generations, of America's troubled search of the image of itself.""--Amazon.com. |
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THE APOTHEOSIS | 3 |
One RESURRECTION | 17 |
Two DEMOCRACY 1 | 67 |
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