The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800University of Chicago Press, 1996 - 367 páginas As controversial and explosive as it is elegant and learned, The Long Affair is Conor Cruise O'Brien's examination of Thomas Jefferson, as man and icon, through the critical lens of the French Revolution. O'Brien offers a provocative analysis of the supreme symbol of American history and political culture and challenges the traditional perceptions of both Jeffersonian history and the Jeffersonian legacy. "The book is an attack on America's long affair with Jeffersonian ideology of radical individualism: an ideology that, by confusing Jefferson with a secular prophet, will destroy the United States from within."—David C. Ward, Boston Book Review "With his background as a politician and a diplomat, O'Brien brings a broad perspective to his effort to define Jefferson's beliefs through the prism of his attitudes toward France. . . . This is an important work that makes an essential contribution to the overall picture of Jefferson."—Booklist "O'Brien traces the roots of Jefferson's admiration for the revolution in France but notes that Jefferson's enthusiasm for France cooled in the 1790s, when French egalitarian ideals came to threaten the slave-based Southern economy that Jefferson supported."—Library Journal "In O'Brien's opinion, it's time that Americans face the fact that Jefferson, long seen as a champion of the 'wronged masses,' was a racist who should not be placed on a pedestal in an increasingly multicultural United States."—Boston Phoenix "O'Brien makes a well-argued revisionist contribution to the literature on Jefferson."—Kirkus Reviews "O'Brien is right on target . . . determined not to let the evasions and cover-ups continue."—Forrest McDonald, National Review "The Long Affair should be read by anyone interested in Jefferson—or in a good fight."—Richard Brookhiser, New York Times Book Review |
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... later writers for just that reason " ( references supplied in note 48 to chapter 4 of TLA ) . Malone refrains from quoting any part of the letter in question , and that single sentence is as near as his readers get to even a paraphrase ...
... later writers for just that reason " ( references supplied in note 48 to chapter 4 of TLA ) . Malone refrains from quoting any part of the letter in question , and that single sentence is as near as his readers get to even a paraphrase ...
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... Emory University , who did a great deal of valuable work for me in the later stages of work on TLA , and came up with a number of new references . He also undertook a pilgrimage to Monticello on my behalf ( see below ) xvi / ...
... Emory University , who did a great deal of valuable work for me in the later stages of work on TLA , and came up with a number of new references . He also undertook a pilgrimage to Monticello on my behalf ( see below ) xvi / ...
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... Later it came to be believed , with justice , that the activities of the philosophes had undermined the whole of the Ancien Régime , by comprehensively discrediting its official ideology . But this was by no means apparent before 1789 ...
... Later it came to be believed , with justice , that the activities of the philosophes had undermined the whole of the Ancien Régime , by comprehensively discrediting its official ideology . But this was by no means apparent before 1789 ...
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... later became widespread — but Benjamin Franklin . We all like to be liked , and the philosophes , to a man and woman , loved and almost adored Benjamin Franklin . As a class , these people de- lighted in paradoxes , and Franklin was the ...
... later became widespread — but Benjamin Franklin . We all like to be liked , and the philosophes , to a man and woman , loved and almost adored Benjamin Franklin . As a class , these people de- lighted in paradoxes , and Franklin was the ...
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... later period , from 1793 on , when the word " horrors " came in some quarters to be intimately associated with the French Revolution , the continuity of the bloody Revolution with the " Godless " French Enlight- enment came to be a ...
... later period , from 1793 on , when the word " horrors " came in some quarters to be intimately associated with the French Revolution , the continuity of the bloody Revolution with the " Godless " French Enlight- enment came to be a ...
Índice
A LONELY AMERICAN Thomas Jefferson Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Louis XVI 178587 | 17 |
A SOMEWHAT CLOUDED CRYSTAL BALL Jefferson as Witness of the Last Years of the Ancien Regime 178689 | 38 |
BRINGING THE TRUE GOD HOME The French Revolution in American Politics after Jeffersons Return 178991 | 69 |
APPROACH AND ADVENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC ONE AND INDIVISIBLE 179192 | 113 |
FRENCH REVOLUTION IN AMERICA The Mission of Citizen CharlesEdmond Genet April 1793January 1794 | 152 |
THE LINGERING END OF THE LONG AFFAIR Jefferson and the French Revolution after Genets Mission 17941800 | 191 |
A THEMATIC OVERVIEW Liberty Slavery and the Cult of the French Revolution | 254 |
THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE IMPENDING SCHISM IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL RELIGION | 301 |
Madison Hemingss Story | 326 |
Notes | 331 |
Sources | 351 |
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