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008			101704s2005 nyu 000 0beng
010			_a2005296593
020			_a9780060598969
042			_alccopycat
050	0	0	_aE332 _b.H66 2005b
082	0	0	_a92 JEF
100	1		_aHitchens, Christopher
245	1	0	_aThomas Jefferson _b: author of America _c/ Christopher Hitchens
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: Atlas Books/HarperCollinsPublishers _c, c2005.
300			_axiv, 188 p. _c; 19 cm.
440		0	_aEminent lives
520			_aHitchens brings the character of Jefferson to life as a man of his time and also as a symbolic figure beyond it. Conflicted by power, Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and acted as Minister to France yet yearned for a quieter career in the Virginia legislature. Predicting that slavery would shape the future of America's development, this professed proponent of emancipation continued to own human property. He negotiated the Louisiana Purchase with France, doubling the size of the nation, and authorized the Lewis and Clark expedition, opening up the American frontier. The Barbary War, a lesser-known chapter of his political career, led to the building of the U.S. Navy and the fortification of America's reputation regarding national defense. In the background is the fledgling nation's struggle for independence, formed in the crucible of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, and, in its shadow, the deformation of that struggle in the excesses of the French Revolution. --From publisher description.
600	1	0	_aJefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
650		4	_aPresidents _z-United States _v--Biography
942			_cMO
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