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MR. JEFFERSON'S UNIVERSITY
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| By: |
Garry Wills |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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| ISBN 10: |
1426201818 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781426201813 |
| Publisher: |
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY |
| Pub. date: |
12 June, 2007 |
| Description: |
In Charlottesville, Virginia, at the University of Virginia, there is today an expression of the Enlightenment, a philosophy concretized in brick and timber. This is the story of Jefferson's last but not his least achievement, and one of the three things that he put on his own tombstone to be remembered by. 22 photos. |
| Synopsis: |
The University of Virginia is one of America's greatest architectural treasures and one of Thomas Jefferson's proudest achievements. At his request his headstone says nothing of his service as America's first Secretary of State or its third President. It says simply: "Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia." For this political genius was a supremely gifted artist as well, and of all Jefferson's stunning accomplishments, the school he built in Charlottesville is perhaps the most perfect expression of the man himself: as leader, as architect, and as philosopher. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
National Geographic Society |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |