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Being Thomas Jefferson
An Intimate History
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Being Thomas Jefferson
Narrado por:
John Chancer
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Andrew Burstein
The deepest dive yet into the heart and soul, secret affairs, unexplored alliances, and bitter feuds of a generally worshipped, intermittently reviled American icon.
Perhaps no founding father is as mysterious as Thomas Jefferson. The author of the Declaration of Independence was both a gifted wordsmith and a bundle of nerves. His superior knowledge of the human heart is captured in the impassioned appeal he brought to the Declaration. But as a champion of the common man who lived a life of privilege on a mountaintop plantation of his own design, he has eluded biographers who have sought to make sense of his inner life. In Being Thomas Jefferson, acclaimed Jefferson scholar Andrew Burstein peels away layers of obfuscation, taking us past the veneer of the animated letter-writer to describe a confused lover and a misguided humanist, too timid to embrace antislavery.
Jefferson was a soft-spoken man who recoiled from direct conflict, yet a master puppeteer in politics. Whenever he left Monticello, where he could control his environment, he suffered debilitating headaches that plagued him for decades, until he finally retired from public life. So, what did it feel like to be Thomas Jefferson? Burstein explains the decision to take as his mistress Sally Hemings, the enslaved half-sister of his late wife, who bore him six children, none of whom he acknowledged. Presenting a society that encouraged separation between public and private, appearance and essence, Burstein paints a dramatic picture of early American culture and brings us closer to Jefferson’s life and thought than ever before.©2026 Andrew Burstein (P)2026 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Burstein employs the key events of Jefferson’s life to probe the inner man to a degree no other biographer has attempted, and he succeeds brilliantly. This groundbreaking work should be considered critical reading as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jefferson’s greatest achievement, the Declaration of Independence.
“Delightful… Mr. Burstein concentrat[es] on Jefferson’s thoughts, personality, relationships and milieu… One theme that runs through Mr. Burstein’s account is the gap that often yawned between Jefferson’s image and his private thoughts. Perhaps no one is entirely consistent, but with Jefferson the disparity could be jarring. He told the world, and himself, that he was a rational, even-tempered man.”
It’s a striking reminder that Jefferson’s legacy endures—all the more reason to read what might be Burstein’s crowning achievement.
A magnificent book… Burstein is a master storyteller… This is a book which an undergraduate or graduate should read and, more particularly, digest. It is certainly also an exemplary book for the general reader. In many ways it is a call to action… I had difficulty putting it down… Burstein has written an honest portrayal of Jefferson’s personality, not showering him with adulation nor demeaning his missteps and flaws … As to new information and characterizations of Jefferson, Burstein entered untrodden areas of inquiry and revisited relationships that have been largely undervalued in the past ... Burstein brilliantly teases out various truths about Jefferson’s inner life … throughout this fine book is Burstein’s strong effort to exit the debate over Jefferson’s attitudes to slavery and to advance historical knowledge without ‘prescriptive politics.’ Burstein wants not to promote or debase, but to explain the man Jefferson with the tools of the historical archive of evidence, all of it … This compelling book offers very much to readers in understanding the intimate mind and history of one of the foremost Founders of the United States of America … This book tells truth and explains the values of one of our country’s greatest Founders and their hopes, ideals and aspirations for the future.
Objective and fascinating... Thomas Jefferson was a unique study in contrasts, as brilliantly highlighted by Andrew Burstein in Being Thomas Jefferson. The meticulous record keeper who got swamped with crushing debt, a public figure with thin skin who firmly held onto grudges, a rogue who seduced his friend’s girlfriends/wives, Burstein adeptly shows Jefferson to be a flawed, yet historically impactful figure.
Burstein shows his mastery of the Jefferson archive on every page, but he also brings judicious psychological insight to the task. Archives, after all, do not interpret themselves, and it is the discriminating scholar and critic in Burstein that gives his book its unusual distinction... lively and incisive.
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