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Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power
by Wills, Garry
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- near fine
- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0618343989
- ISBN 13
- 9780618343980
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin, 2003. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 274 pages, text clean and tight. Inscribed on fly page by pasy owner. DJ has not been price clipped.
Synopsis
In "Negro President," the best-selling historian Garry Wills explores a controversial and neglected aspect of Thomas Jefferson's presidency: it was achieved by virtue of slave "representation," and conducted to preserve that advantage. Wills goes far beyond the recent revisionist debate over Jefferson's own slaves and his relationship with Sally Heming to look at the political relationship between the president and slavery. Jefferson won the election of 1800 with Electoral College votes derived from the three-fifths representation of slaves, who could not vote but who were partially counted as citizens. That count was known as "the slave power" granted to southern states, and it made some Federalists call Jefferson the Negro President -- one elected only by the slave count's margin. Probing the heart of Jefferson's presidency, Wills reveals how the might of the slave states was a concern behind Jefferson's most important decisions and policies, including his strategy to expand the nation west. But the president met with resistance: Timothy Pickering, now largely forgotten, was elected to Congress to wage a fight against Jefferson and the institutions that supported him. Wills restores Pickering and his allies' dramatic struggle to our understanding of Jefferson and the creation of the new nation. In "Negro President," Wills offers a bold rethinking of one of American history's greatest icons.
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Details
- Bookseller
- M. W. Riggs Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000439
- Title
- Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power
- Author
- Wills, Garry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0618343989
- ISBN 13
- 9780618343980
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2003
- Pages
- 274
- Keywords
- Thomas Jefferson, Slaves,
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M. W. Riggs Bookseller
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About M. W. Riggs Bookseller
I've been selling books for 30 years on line. I had a real bookstore for about 20 years. My first love is history and I have a lot of them that I will be listing. Of course I always find other kinds of books that I just have to get, so I could have books on many different subjects.
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