Description
By turns entertaining and tragic, this elegant history reveals the origins of a great university in the dilemmas of Virginia slavery. Thomas Jefferson shares center stage with his family and fellow planters, but at the crux are the enslaved black families on whom they depend.
Taylor's account of Jefferson's campaign to save Virginia by building the university is dramatic, a contest for power and resources rich in political maneuver and eccentricities comic and cruel.
Author: Alan Taylor
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/20/2020
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9780393358575
ISBN10: 0393358577
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
- Education | History
- Education | Higher