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• Date Posted: 11/04/09

Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation by Merrill D. Peterson (copyright 1970). This edition (copyright 1987) is part of The Library of the Presidents from Easton Press. This book, which is available from the publisher only by subscription to the series, is in excellent condition.
Easton Press volumes are among the most beautiful and durable books available today. Each volume is bound in genuine leather with a hubbed spine and accented with 22-karat gold, and printed on acid-neutral paper. The Smyth-sewn pages have gilded edges and are complemented by a sewn-in satin ribbon page marker and distinctive endleaves.
If there is one single man most responsible for making the United States different and distinct from other countries, it is certainly Thomas Jefferson. No other founding father had as powerful and as lasting an effect on the future of the new nation. Jefferson’s unique vision of what the United States should be, as well as his egalitarian personal philosophy, have become essential elements of the American political system and the American credo of individual rights and freedoms.
Jefferson was a prodigious and fascinating talent, and in this rich and eloquent biography, noted historian and Jeffersonian expert Peterson explores every facet of Jefferson’s remarkable philosophy and unequaled achievements.
Winner of the Bancroft Prize for history for an earlier work on Jefferson, Peterson was a professor at both Princeton and Brandeis Universities before becoming Chairman of the Department of History at the University of Virginia.
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