Young thomas jefferson biography amazon
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Two years ago Leonard Wibberley, author of almost a dozen books on the Ariel list, wrote to his publisher about his plans for this book: "I have been doing a little preliminary reading and have come to the conclusion that it would be a mistake to cover the life of Jefferson in one volume. All that would be accomplished would be to give a recital of his exploits, which would become a boring litany. What I would like to do is discover how he got to be Jefferson, how his mind started to work, what the country was like at the time, and who the greatest figures were. In short, I would like to have the scope in writing the Jefferson biography that I had in writing the Treegate books [see back of this jacket], where the stage would be not only the thirteen colonies but also France and England and that huge wilderness beyond the Ohio that was as big as all Europe."
Young Man from the Piedmont opens in 1743, when Thomas Jefferson was born near the banks of the Rivanna River in the British colony of Virginia. The book closes in 1776 when Mr. Jefferson dipped his pen into his inkwell and began to write: "When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another..."
Young Man from the Piedmont, the
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Jefferson recognized that the principles he included in the Declaration had not been fully realized and would remain a challenge across time, but his poetic vision continues to have a profound influence in the United States and around the world. Abraham Lincoln made just this point when he declared:
All honor to Jefferson – to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, and so to embalm it there, that to-day and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.7
After Jefferson left Congress in 1776, he returned to Virginia and served in the legislature. In late 1776, as a member of the new House of Delegates of Virginia, he worked closely with James Madison. Their first collaboration, to end the religious establishment in Virginia, became a legislative battle which would culminate with the passage of Jefferson’s Statute for Religious Freedom in 1786.
Governor of Virginia
Elected governor from 1779 to 1781, he suffered an inquiry into his conduct during the British invasion of Virginia in his last year in office that, although the in