Thomas Jefferson: The Revolution of Ideas

by R.B. Bernstein

In this new concise biography Thomas Jefferson historian R.B. Bernstein finds the key to this enigmatic Founder not as a great political figure, but as leader of a "revolution of ideas that would make the world over again".

Bernstein examines Jefferson's strengths and weaknesses, his achievements and failures, his triumphs, contradictions, and failings. Thomas Jefferson details his luxurious (and debt-burdened) life as a Virginia gentleman...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019514368X
• ISBN13: 9780195143683
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12