· Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham. Summary. After reading Hamilton and John Adams, I wanted to get a different perspective and Meacham provided that. Jefferson was a politician/philosopher who believed in the common people and instilled in the nation a sense of progress where the future can always be better than the past;. Jon Meacham's "Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" is an eminently interesting, exciting read. Meacham boils down Jefferson's life into nine individual sections, the longest naturally being "The President of the United States, " It's a neat - almost too neat - way of dividing the book into easily digestible www.doorway.ru by: Jon Meacham received the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Andrew Jackson, American www.doorway.ru is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Gospel, and Franklin and www.doorway.rum, who teaches at Vanderbilt University and at The University of the South, is a fellow of the Society of American www.doorway.ru: Random House.
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, by Jon Meacham Mohammed AlQuraishi Ma 0. Of all the founding fathers, I have always been most drawn to Thomas Jefferson. His supposed synthesis of the intellectual and the political appeals to me, yet until recently I had not read a single biography of him. Jon Meacham received the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Andrew Jackson, American www.doorway.ru is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Gospel, and Franklin and www.doorway.rum, who teaches at Vanderbilt University and at The University of the South, is a fellow of the Society of American Historians. These achievements and many more, Time contributing editor Meacham (American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, , etc.) smoothly argues, would have been impossible if the endlessly complicated Jefferson were merely the dreamy, impractical philosopher king his detractors imagined. His portrait of our most enigmatic president.
It’s no mean feat to render the life and times of such a figure (much less make it compulsively readable), but as with his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Andrew Jackson (American Lion), Jon Meacham’s Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power vividly illustrates the world and impact of our third president, deftly weaving the threads of Jefferson’s personality into a complete portrait of a singularly complex politician and thinker--a philosopher president. Jon Meacham's "Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" is an eminently interesting, exciting read. Meacham boils down Jefferson's life into nine individual sections, the longest naturally being "The President of the United States, " It's a neat - almost too neat - way of dividing the book into easily digestible sections. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson’s genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously. Such is the art of power.
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