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Free Download Peter Thompson, "Heir through Hope: Thomas Jefferson’s Lifelong Investment in William Short"
English | ISBN: 0197546838 | 2023 | 304 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 13 MB
The relationship between Thomas Jefferson and William Short, the eldest son of an established Virginia family and relative of Martha Jefferson, began as a patron-protégé arrangement conventional for the era. Jefferson encouraged Short’s legal career and gave him his first legal work. Thus began a bond of forty years that that both men characterized in paternal and filial terms and that sheds considerable light on the enigmatic Founding Father.

Free Download Rethinking Thomas Jefferson’s Writings on Slavery and Race By M. Andrew Holowchak
2020 | 175 Pages | ISBN: 1527544486 | PDF | 2 MB
Revisionism has been the historical vogue for well over two decades concerning Jeffersonian scholarship. This movement has been an attempt to neutralize the avowed hagiographical scholarship on Jefferson by aiming to offer an all-too-human Thomas Jefferson. The regrettable result has been a depiction, iterated and reiterated uncritically by scholars, of a less-than-human Jefferson, presenting him as an inveterate hypocrite and racist. Thus, Jeffersonian scholarship, as argued here, has become an exercise in useless, fatuous repetition of the same claims that has impeded attempts by serious scholars to gain fresh insights into the mind of one of the greatest Americans. This book offers a stimulating, provocative challenge to the stale revisionist claims on Jefferson concerning his hypocrisy and racism. It will appeal to mavens of Jefferson, as well as scholars intent on moving forward with Jeffersonian scholarship. The book will also appeal to those persons who believe it is time to resituate Jefferson on his little mountain.

Free Download Thomas Fleming, "Young Jefferson"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 154121837X | EPUB | pages: 200 | 3.5 mb
In this swift, insightful book, New York Times bestselling author Thomas Fleming brings vividly to life the remarkable youth of Thomas Jefferson, one of America’s greatest presidents. Here are all of Jefferson’s early triumphs and tragedies – from his inspired design and construction of Monticello and election as Virginia’s second governor to his achievement as the author of the Declaration of Independence and the devastating loss of his wife.

Free Download Pat Fogarty, "Meet Thomas Jefferson"
English | 2001 | pages: 80 | ISBN: 0375812113, 0394800672 | EPUB | 5,2 mb
When Thomas Jefferson was young, Virginia was still a colony of England. Jefferson thought that many English laws and taxes were unfair, so he studied hard to become a lawyer and help make better laws. Soon he and others came to believe that the colonies should become a new country, and Jefferson was chosen to write the Declaration of Independence. As the third president of the United States, he focused on exploring the country and making it grow. His fairness and love of learning made him one of the most beloved presidents of all time.

Free Download Jack Mclaughlin, "Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder"
English | 2011 | pages: 496 | ISBN: 0805014632, 0805004823 | EPUB | 4,4 mb
A National Book Award nominee in 1988, Jack McLaughlin’s biography tells the life of Thomas Jefferson as seen through the prism of his love affair with Monticello.

Free Download William G. Hyland Jr., "Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson: The Life of Dumas Malone"
English | 2013 | pages: 200 | ISBN: 1612341977 | EPUB | 2,4 mb
The magisterial collaboration over half a lifetime between historian Dumas Malone and his subject, Thomas Jefferson, is the basis for William G. Hyland Jr.’s compelling volume Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson. Malone, the courtly and genteel historian from Mississippi, spent thirty-eight years researching and writing the definitive biography of the man who invented the United States of America. Meticulously researched, Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson is a comprehensive, fascinating biography that will be welcomed by scholars and general readers alike.

Free Download Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BXFQ8FTF | 2023 | 16 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 486 MB
Author: H. W. Brands
Narrator: Robert Fass
From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America. Yet parties emerged even before the Constitution was ratified, and they took firmer root in the following decade. In Founding Partisans, master historian H. W. Brands has crafted a fresh and lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be.

Free Download Dennis Brindell Fradin, Who HQ, John O’Brien, "Who Was Thomas Jefferson?"
English | 2003 | pages: 112 | ISBN: 0448431459 | EPUB | 4,7 mb
Did you know that John Adams had to coax Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of Independence? It’s true. The shy Virginia statesman refused at first, but then went on to author one of our nation’s most important and inspiring documents. The third U.S. president, Jefferson was also an architect, inventor, musician, farmer, and-what is certainly the most troubling aspect of his life-a slave owner. Finally, here’s a biography for kids that unveils the many facets of this founding father’s remarkable and complicated life.

Free Download Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, "Jefferson’s Sons: A Founding Father’s Secret Children"
English | 2013 | pages: 400 | ISBN: 0142421847, 0803734999 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
This story of Thomas Jefferson’s children by one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, tells a darker piece of America’s history from an often unseen perspective-that of three of Jefferson’s slaves-including two of his own children. As each child grows up and tells his story, the contradiction between slavery and freedom becomes starker, calliing into question the real meaning of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This poignant story sheds light on what life was like as one of Jefferson’s invisible offspring.

Free Download Thomas J. Dilorenzo, "Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson’s Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution-and What It Means for Americans Today"
English | 2008 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 0307382850, 0307382842 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton-two of the most influential Founding Fathers-were also fierce rivals with two opposing political philosophies and two radically different visions for America.