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Free Download David G. Post, "In Search of Jefferson’s Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace"
English | 2009 | pages: 244 | ISBN: 0195342895, 0199858217 | PDF | 1,8 mb
In 1787, Thomas Jefferson, then the American Minister to France, had the "complete skeleton, skin & horns" of an American moose shipped to him in Paris and mounted in the lobby of his residence as a symbol of the vast possibilities contained in the strange and largely unexplored New World. Taking a cue from Jefferson’s efforts, David Post, one of the nation’s leading Internet scholars, here presents a pithy, colorful exploration of the still mostly undiscovered territory of cyberspace-what it is, how it works, and how it should be governed.

Free Download Jefferson, Madison, and the Making of the Constitution by Jeff Broadwater, Joe Barrett, Tantor Audio
English | 2019 | ISBN: B07SG7L87M | MP@64 Kbps | Duration:9 hours and 47 minutes + EPUB | 135 Mb
Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, "Father of the Constitution," were two of the most important Founders of the United States as well as the closest of political allies. Yet historians have often seen a tension between the idealistic rhetoric of the Declaration and the more pedestrian language of the Constitution. Moreover, to some, the adoption of the Constitution represented a repudiation of the democratic values of the Revolution.
In this book, Jeff Broadwater explores the evolution of the constitutional thought of these two seminal American figures, from the beginning of the American Revolution through the adoption of the Bill of Rights. In explaining how the two political compatriots could have produced such seemingly dissimilar documents but then come to a common constitutional ground, Broadwater reveals how their collaboration – and their disagreements – influenced the full range of constitutional questions during this early period of the American republic.

Free Download "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination by Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter S. Onuf, Karen Chilton
English | 2019 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B01D28W4UU | MP3@64 Kbps | Duration: 14:33 h | 399 Mb
A groundbreaking work of history that explicates Thomas Jefferson’s vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery, and race.
Thomas Jefferson is still presented today as a hopelessly enigmatic figure despite being written about more than any other Founding Father. Lauded as the most articulate voice of American freedom even as he held people in bondage, Jefferson is variably described by current-day observers as a hypocrite, an atheist, and a simple-minded proponent of limited government.

Free Download American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (Audiobook)
English | February 23, 2021 | ASIN: B08SZC8FMM | M4B@64 kbps | 15 hours | 818 MB
Author: Joseph J. Ellis | Narrator: Susan O’Malley
For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight – and not only during his active political career. After 1809, his longed-for retirement was compromised by a steady stream of guests and tourists who made of his estate at Monticello a virtual hotel, as well as by more than one thousand letters per year, most from strangers, which he insisted on answering personally. In his twilight years Jefferson was already taking on the luster of a national icon, which was polished off by his auspicious death (on July 4, 1896); and in the subsequent 17 decades of his celebrity – now verging, thanks to virulent revisionists and television documentaries, on notoriety – has been inflated beyond recognition of the original person.