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In this special edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham, young listeners will learn about the life and political philosophy of one of our Founding Fathers.
Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States. He was one of the authors of the Declaration of Independence. But he was also a lawyer and an ambassador, an inventor and a scientist. He had a wide range of interests and hobbies, but his consuming interest was the survival and success of the United States.
This audiobook contains a note from Meacham, as well as sections throughout the text about subjects such as the Boston Tea Party, the Library of Congress, and Napoléon Bonaparte. Additional materials include a timeline; a family tree; a Who’s Who in Jefferson’s world; sections on Jefferson’s original writings and correspondence, “inventions,” interests, places in Jefferson’s world, finding Jefferson in the United States today, additional reading, organizations, and websites; notes; a bibliography; and an index. This adaptation, ideal for those interested in American presidents, biographies, and the founding of the American republic, is an excellent example of informational writing and reflects Meacham’s extensive research using primary source material.
Includes a bonus PDF of timelines, writings, and a bibliography.
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“Edward Herrmann’s authoritativevoice lends weight to this young people’s adaptation of Meacham’s book Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power…Hesounds like the history teacher you always wanted, bringing history to life andbreathing life and humanity into one of our most complicated and contradictoryFounding Fathers. Whether he’s relating Jefferson’s belief in the high idealsof education and basic human rights or sharing less savory aspects of thisenigmatic man’s complex personality, his delivery is even and nonjudgmental. Hepaints a picture of a man who was able to reconcile the contradiction of aphilosophy based on freedom to all and a culture dependent on the enslavementof one race to another. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“Jon Meacham, the author of this book, is a revered Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. This special illustrated adaptation of a book that was lauded as ‘probably the best single-volume biography of Jefferson’ is carefully attuned to a younger audience…In brief sections, it describes not only Jefferson’s life, but also concurrent events in our nation’s history.”
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“Thomas Jefferson was an idealist who was drawn to the cause of individual rights and a pragmatist who saw the need to take practical steps to get things done. That interpretation frames this adaptation for young readers of Meacham’s Pulitzer Prize–winning adult biography, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power…The biographer presents important issues in American history, particularly those surrounding the beginnings of our nation, and a strong discussion of Jefferson’s failure to deal with the issue of slavery…Readers will be rewarded with a coherent, well-supported explanation of a complex man.”
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“This adaptation of Meacham’s acclaimed biography of Thomas Jefferson presents a chronological look at Jefferson’s life—and through that, information about his political and philosophical views. Readers learn about his youth and early responsibilities, his long-lasting friendships and interactions with people very influential in America’s history, his love of family, books, science, and learning, his political thinking and leadership, his insecurities, his attitudes about slavery, and his long service to his colony, state, and then his country. Numerous quotes taken from his letters and writings are interspersed throughout the text and highlight his idealism and his pragmatism…This will be extremely useful for assignments and history buffs.”
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“Choosing to cover every aspect of Jefferson’s life without exploring any particular part in depth makes this an engaging, informative introduction.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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About Jon Meacham
Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and the author of several New York Times bestsellers, including three that have made their #1 bestsellers list. He is a contributing writer for the New York Times Book Review and a contributing editor of Time magazine, and he holds the Rogers Chair in the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University
About Edward Herrmann
Edward Herrmann (1943–2014) was one of America’s top audiobook narrators. He won multiple Audie Awards and twenty-two Earphones Awards, and his narration of the King James version of the Bible remains a benchmark in the industry.