Audiobook: Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh by Thomas S. Kidd

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617267 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh Author: Thomas S. Kidd Narrator: Grover Gardner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 45 minutes Release date: May 10, 2022 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: A revelatory new biography of Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his ethical and spiritual life Thomas Jefferson was arguably the most brilliant and inspiring political writer in American history. But the ethical realities of his personal life and political career did not live up to his soaring rhetoric. Indeed, three tensions defined Jefferson’s moral life: democracy versus slavery, republican virtue versus dissolute consumption, and veneration for Jesus versus skepticism about Christianity. In this book Thomas S. Kidd tells the story of Jefferson’s ethical life through the lens of these tensions, including an unapologetic focus on the issue where Jefferson’s idealistic philosophy and lived reality clashed most obviously: his sexual relationship with his enslaved woman Sally Hemings. In doing so, he offers a unique perspective on one of American history’s most studied figures.