Thomas Jefferson's education

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Label

Thomas Jefferson's education

Statement of responsibility

Alan Taylor

Title variation

Thomas Jeffersons education

Creator

• trueTaylor, Alan, 1955-

Author

• trueTaylor, Alan, 1955-

Subject

• trueFormer presidents -- United States
• trueHigher education -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• trueInequality
• trueSlavery -- History
• Slavery -- United States -- History
• Slavery -- Virginia -- History
• trueState universities and colleges
• trueUnited States -- History -- 19th century
• University of Virginia -- History
• trueVirginia
• Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Political and social views
• Education, Higher -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• trueEducational reform
• trueElite (Social sciences)

Language

eng

Summary

"From the Pulitzer Prize- winning historian, a brilliant, absorbing study of Jefferson and his campaign to save Virginia through education. 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. They, he hoped, might one day lead a revitalized Virginia free of slavery-- and free of the former slaves. Jefferson's campaign to build the university was a contest for the future of a state and the larger nation. Although he prevails, Jefferson's vision of reform through education is hobbled by the actions of genteel students whose defiant sense of honor derived from owning slaves. It is the women of this hypermasculine society-- particularly Jefferson's granddaughters--who redeem the best elements of his legacy"--

Writing style

• trueWell-researched
• trueRichly detailed

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

LBSOR/DLC

Dewey number

973.4/6092

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

E332.2

LC item number

.T39 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography