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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
by Jon Meacham
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- 1400067669
- ISBN 13
- 9781400067664
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About This Item
New York: Random House. November 2012. Hardcover. First Edition, later printing. Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and tight. Slight edgewear to jacket. No tears, creases, or folds. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xxix + 759 pages. 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.
Synopsis
Jon Meacham is the author, most recently, of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, a #1 New York Times bestseller that has been named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, The Seattle Times, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch . Meacham received the Pulitzer Prize for American Lion, his bestselling 2008 biography of Andrew Jackson. He is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers Franklin and Winston and American Gospel . Executive editor and executive vice president of Random House, Meacham is a contributing editor to Time magazine, a former editor of Newsweek, and has written for The New York Times and The Washington Post, among other publications. He is a regular contributor on Meet the Press, Morning Joe, and Charlie Rose . A Fellow of the Society of American Historians, Meacham serves on the boards of the New-York Historical Society, the Churchill Centre, and The McCallie School. He is a former trustee and regent of Sewanee: The University of the South, and has served on the vestries of St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue and Trinity Wall Street church in New York City. Born in Chattanooga in 1969, Meacham was educated at The McCallie School and at Sewanee: The University of the South, where he was salutatorian and Phi Beta Kappa. He began his career as a reporter at The Chattanooga Times . He and his wife live with their three children in Nashville and in Sewanee.
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- Books of the World
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- RWARE0000002496
- Title
- Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
- Author
- Jon Meacham
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, later printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1400067669
- ISBN 13
- 9781400067664
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date published
- November 2012
- Keywords
- biography, Thomas Jefferson, presidents, government, history, politics, United States
- Bookseller catalogs
- Politics & Government; History; Biographies; Virginia;
- Size
- 8vo
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