“Taylor… probes [Jefferson’s] ambitious mission in clear prose and with great insight and erudition.” ―Annette Gordon-Reed, AtlanticBy turns entertaining and tragic, this elegant history reveals the o
By turns entertaining and tragic, this beautifully crafted history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery. Thomas Jefferson shares centre stage with his family a
The book's ambition is to uniquely yoke familiar histories of New Hollywood with aspects of critical theory that, since the 1950s, have embraced advances in the New Rhetoric as pioneered by literary t
