Thomas Jefferson: The Artwork of Energy

On this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–successful creator of
American Lion and
Franklin and Winston brings vividly to life a unprecedented man and his exceptional instances.
Thomas Jefferson: The Artwork of Energy offers us Jefferson the politician and president, an amazing and sophisticated human being eternally engaged within the wars of his period. Philosophers assume; politicians maneuver. Jefferson’s genius was that he was each and will do each, usually concurrently. Such is the artwork of energy.

 

Thomas Jefferson hated confrontation, and but his understanding of energy and of human nature enabled him to maneuver males and to marshal concepts, to be taught from his errors, and to prevail. Captivated with many issues—girls, his household, books, science, structure, gardens, mates, Monticello, and Paris—Jefferson liked America most, and he strove over and over, regardless of fierce opposition, to comprehend his imaginative and prescient: the creation, survival, and success of fashionable authorities in America. Jon Meacham lets us see Jefferson’s world as Jefferson himself noticed it, and to understand how Jefferson discovered the means to endure and win within the face of rife partisan division, financial uncertainty, and exterior risk. Drawing on archives in the US, England, and France, in addition to unpublished Jefferson presidential papers, Meacham presents Jefferson as probably the most profitable political chief of the early republic, and maybe in all of American historical past.

 

The daddy of the perfect of particular person liberty, of the Louisiana Buy, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and of the settling of the West, Jefferson acknowledged that the genius of humanity—and the genius of the brand new nation—lay in the potential of progress, of discovering the undiscovered and looking for the unknown. From the writing of the Declaration of Independence to elegant dinners in Paris and within the President’s Home; from political maneuverings within the boardinghouses and legislative halls of Philadelphia and New York to the toddler capital on the Potomac; from his sophisticated life at Monticello, his breathtaking home and plantation in Virginia, to the creation of the College of Virginia, Jefferson was central to the age. Right here too is the non-public Jefferson, a person of urge for food, sensuality, and fervour.

 

The Jefferson story resonates immediately not least as a result of he led his nation by ferocious partisanship and cultural warfare amid financial change and exterior threats, and likewise as a result of he embodies an everlasting drama, the wrestle of the management of a nation to attain greatness in a troublesome and confounding world.

Reward for Thomas Jefferson: The Artwork of Energy


 

“That is most likely one of the best single-volume biography of Jefferson ever written.”
—Gordon S. Wooden


 

“A giant, grand, absorbing exploration of not simply Jefferson and his function in historical past but additionally Jefferson the person, humanized as by no means earlier than.”
—Leisure Weekly

“[Meacham] captures who Jefferson was, not simply as a statesman however as a person. . . . By the tip of the e-book . . . the reader is more likely to really feel as if he’s shedding an expensive pal. . . . [An] absorbing story.”
—The Christian Science Monitor

“This terrific e-book permits us to see the political genius of Thomas Jefferson higher than we’ve got ever seen it earlier than. In these endlessly fascinating pages, Jefferson emerges with such vitality that it appears as if he may nonetheless be alive immediately.”
—Doris Kearns Goodwin