Thomas Jefferson's Education

by Alan Taylor

Book Overview

By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully crafted history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery. Thomas Jefferson shares center stage with his family and fellow planters, all dependent on the labor of enslaved black families. With a declining Virginia yielding to commercially vibrant northern states, Jefferson in 1819 proposed to build a university to educate and improve the sons of the planter elite...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393652424
• ISBN13: 9780393652420
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"