America A Concise History 3e V1 & Jefferson v. Hamilton & Cherokee Removal 2e

History

Dumenil, Lynn

Henretta, James A.

Perdue, Theda

Brody, David

Cunningham Jr., Noble E.

Americas

Bedford/St.Martin's

"A major contribution." Washington Post The authoritative single-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson, perhaps the most significant figure in American history. He was a complex and compelling man: a fervent advocate of democracy who enjoyed the life of a southern aristocrat and owned slaves, a revolutionary who became president, a believer in states' rights who did much to further the power of the federal government. Drawing on the recent explosion of Jeffersonian scholarship and fresh readings of original sources, IN PURSUIT OF REASON is a monument to Jefferson that will endure for generations.

In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Ballantine Books

Filled with new insights and fresh interpretations, this is the richest study yet published on the presidency of James Monroe, the last Revolutionary War hero to ascend to that august office. Noble Cunningham's history of the fifth presidency (1817-25) shows a young nation beset by growing pains and led by a cautious politician who had neither the learning nor the intellect of Jefferson or Madison, but whose actions strengthened both the United States and the presidency itself. Cunningham makes clear that the mislabelled "era of good feelings" had more than its share of crises, including those resulting from revolutions in Latin America, Spanish possession of Florida, the depression of 1819, and the controversy over slavery in Missouri. Monroe, he shows, successfully defused these potentially explosive situations, most notably by negotiating the 1820 Missouri Compromise and announcing in 1823 what came to be known as the Monroe Doctrine, a document that still guides American policy in the western hemisphere. Cunningham effectively places these actions within the context of Monroe's life and times and sheds new light on the inner workings of his cabinet and his relations with Congress. In addition, he features the prominent roles of two future presidents: John Quincy Adams as secretary of state and Andrew Jackson as the controversial general whose actions in the Seminole War created a headache for the administration. Though substantially informed by previous scholarship, Cunningham writes largely from the abundant primary source materials of the era to provide an illuminating new look at a president and a nation on the brink of greatness.

The Presidency of James Monroe

University Press of Kansas

The rise of the Jeffersonian party is a phenomenon in American history that has often attracted the attention of historians. However, little examination has been made of the actual instrumentalities with which the principles of Jeffersonian democracy were implemented or rejected. This book traces, from its nebulous beginnings to its first great victory in 1800, the formation of the national party organization that lay behind the elevation of Jefferson to the presidency.

The Jeffersonian Republicans: The Formation of Party Organization, 1798-1801 (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo)

The University of North Carolina Press

An important contribtion to iconographic studies of the presidency, this book employs an innovative approach.  Sixty engraving, medal and silhousettes illustrate the images of Thomas Jefferson that were availabel to the common man.  Without television, photography, or coins that pictured the head of state, the majority of American's in Jefferson's day knew his likeness mainly from engraved prints, many of questionable artistic merit.  These contemporary images have never been collected in a single source and many have never been reproduced.  Source, artist, and date are given for each.  They reflect the public's fascination with the man and the office and they display the state of the arts in a young nation.  For the most part they derive from artistic treasures we are familiar with today, especiallly the Houdon bust and the penetrating portraits by Rembrandy Peale and Gilbert Stuart.  The likeness some done by such leading engravers as Cornelius Tiebout and David Edwin appeared as separate prints, in books and periodicals and sometimes as transfers on pieces of Liverpool pottery.  Among the author's major contributions are important discoveries alterin gaccepted conclusions regarding stuart's first life portrait of Jefferson.

The Image of Thomas Jefferson in the Public Eye: Portraits for the People, 1800–1809

Arts & Photography

Graphic Design

University of Virginia Press

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