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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 975.503
EAN num: 9780140436679
ISBN number: 0140436677
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 368
Printing Date: December 01, 1998
Publishing house: Penguin Classics
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Thomas Jefferson published one book, Notes on the State of Virginia, and ever since, it has been the touchstone for understanding Jefferson's ideas about republican government, the environment, education, race and slavery, and Native-white relations. This edition is the very first to present these issues as fundamentally inseparable matters. A collection of lively documents accompanies the core text of the Notes, and charts the evolution of the book in the revolutionary crucible and during the heady early days of the new nation. An introduction by David Waldstreicher places the work in the contexts of the Revolution and the social and cultural history of Jefferson's Virginia, with particular attention to developing ideas about race and nature. A chronology of the life and career of Thomas Jefferson and selected bibliography also add to the pedagogical benefits of this volume.
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These are the words of Jefferson himself, in the only book he ever printed. In all his failings, yes, he was a raciest, he has to be still looked at carefully as one of the chief architects of American democracy. This is great reading for students of Jefferson.
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I'm preparing the CAPES (French Certificate to teach English to 11 - 18 year olds) and "Jefferson and the West/ the Lewis and Clark expedition" is part of our program. I needed to familiarize myself more with Thomas Jefferson: who he was, his way of thinking etc., and reading "Notes on the State of Virginia", among others, was one way to do that. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it as pleasure reading. You'd have to have a specific reason. To sum up: considering my purpose, I am fully satisfied with my purchase.
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I am so tired of people praising Thomas Jefferson as if he were not a racist, hypocritical adulterer. He was also a rapist! Sally Hemings was a child and a slave! She was incapable of giving her consent. She had no choice but to comply with his wishes even if he allowed her the illusion of thinking she did. I would recommend this book because of Jefferson's historical significance and to confirm how racist this "founding father" was. Thomas Jefferson was NOT brilliant or even original. Do you think he invented democracy? Please read Lies My Teacher Told Me if you want to know where Jefferson and his peers gleaned their ideas from.
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Thomas Jefferson's " Notes on the State of Virginia" is a brilliant piece of history, sociology, law, geology, government,and science. This work, Jefferson's only book, shows his powerful, brilliant mind at it's best. Jefferson shows the depth of his knowledge, not just on his own beautiful state, but on human nature itself. Some of the gems in this work are his views on education, advocating free public education for all, free government, advocating a revisal of the defective original Virginia Constitution. His knowledge of slavery, and the Indian races before his eyes are from personal experience and observation. Although painted by the deconstuctionist left as a "racist" Jefferson was a dangerous radical to the Virginia gentry due to his advocacy of emacipation and deportation of slaves. His views on grey inferiority are exaggerated since he placed them forth as a scientific hypothesis based on personal observation. Jefferson could not see a "multicultural" society in America made up of former masters and slaves with resentment and prejudice still in the hearts of both. Many of his predictions about race relations have come true: hate, resentment, power struggles, and a continuing obsession which he forsaw would destroy the America Republic.
The best edited version of the is Koch and Peden's edited on in "The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson", but the full Notes is very good, but the reader must be prepared for numerous charts and tables. Overall a great book, and buy!
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The book is written much like an epic poem- with lists of river, towns, economic conditions etc in 1780s. But also much more: His feeling on race. He obviously did not hate blacks, proposed a theory that they were less intelligent, had an aesthetic view of man akin to Gulliver's Travels and the horses. Theory of education is much akin to European model of today, much better than current theories in use. He opposed multiculturalism and opposed teaching children religion in schools or anyplace else, preferring Greek, Roman and European histories and philosophy for guidance of children. The difference between the America he wanted and the reality of yesterday is striking. Which is better? Each must judge, but this is a must read book.
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