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Negro President : Jefferson and the Slave Power
by Wills, Garry
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good copy, good dusk jaket
- ISBN 10
- 0618343989
- ISBN 13
- 9780618343980
- Seller
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Binghamton, New York, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin, 2003. Hardback. Good copy, good dusk jaket. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes History Of The AmericasGood Copy with dust jacket. EMail for more information.
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
- Robinson Street Books, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ware718WFTA030
- Title
- Negro President : Jefferson and the Slave Power
- Author
- Wills, Garry
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good copy, good dusk jaket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0618343989
- ISBN 13
- 9780618343980
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- History Of The Amer~Modern History To 2~Slavery & Abolition~Revolutions~Uprisings~Rebellions~Politics & Governme~
- X weight
- 16 oz
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