| Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power Contributor(s): Wills, Garry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0618485376 ISBN-13: 9780618485376 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $18.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2005 Annotation: Moving beyond the recent revisionist debate over Jefferson's own slaves and his relationship with Sally Hemings, Wills instead probes the heart of Jefferson's presidency and political life, revealing how the might of the slave states remained a concern behind his most important policies and decisions. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Political Science - History | United States - 19th Century - Social Science | Slavery |
| Dewey: 326.097 |
| LCCN: 2005283511 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.1" W x 7.88" (0.68 lbs) 32 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 |
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| Publisher Description: In "Negro President" the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills explores a pivotal moment in American history through the lens of Thomas Jefferson and the now largely forgotten Timothy Pickering, and "prods readers to appreciate essential aspects of our distressed but well-intentioned representative democracy" (Chicago Tribune). In 1800 Jefferson won the presidential election with Electoral College votes derived from the three-fifths representation of slaves -- slaves who could not vote but were still partially counted as citizens. Moving beyond the recent revisionist debate over Jefferson's own slaves and his relationship with Sally Hemings, Wills instead probes the heart of Jefferson's presidency and political life, revealing how the might of the slave states remained a concern behind his most important policies and decisions. In an eye-opening, ingeniously argued exposé, Wills restores Timothy Pickering and the Federalists' dramatic struggle to our understanding of Jefferson, the creation of the new nation, and the evolution of our representative democracy. "Garry Wills is a thinker of first rate. He combines the vigor of the social critic with the depth of the historian, and to these he adds the even rarer gifts of the philosopher." -- New Republic "A thorough political analysis of another founding father's involvement in slavery." -- San Francisco Chronicle Garry Wills, a distinguished historian and critic, is the author of numerous books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln at Gettysburg, Saint Augustine, the best-selling Why I Am a Catholic, and Henry Adams and the Making of America. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wills, Garry: - GARRY WILLS, a distinguished historian and critic, is the author of numerous books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lincoln at Gettysburg, Saint Augustine, and the best-selling Why I Am a Catholic. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, he has won many awards, among them two National Book Critics Circle Awards and the 1998 National Medal for the Humanities. He is a history professor emeritus at Northwestern University. |