Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty : John B. Boles

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291218 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty Author: John B. Boles Narrator: Michael Johnson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 24 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 25, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 129 Ratings of Narrator: 4.58 of Total 12 Genres: Law & Politics Publisher's Summary: From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970 Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John B. Boles plumbs every facet of Thomas Jefferson's life, all while situating him amid the sweeping upheaval of his times. We meet Jefferson the politician and political thinker -- as well as Jefferson the architect, scientist, bibliophile, paleontologist, musician, and gourmet. We witness him drafting of the Declaration of Independence, negotiating the Louisiana Purchase, and inventing a politics that emphasized the states over the federal government -- a political philosophy that shapes our national life to this day. Boles offers new insight into Jefferson's actions and thinking on race. His Jefferson is not a hypocrite, but a tragic figure -- a man who could not hold simultaneously to his views on abolition, democracy, and patriarchal responsibility. Yet despite his flaws, Jefferson's ideas would outlive him and make him into nothing less than the architect of American liberty.