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1、ThomasJeffersonAuthorofAmericaChristopherHitchensEMINENTLIVESForBrianLamb:agreatVirginianandagreatAmerican,afinedemocrataswellasagoodrepublican,whohasstrivenforaneducatedelectorateContentsAcknowledgmentsviiIntroduction1ChapterOne:AllPoliticsIsLocal:7VirginiatoPhiladelphiaChapterTwo:W

2、arandRevolutioninVirginia33ChapterThree:RevolutioninFrance53(andaMeetingwithSally)ChapterFour:Interregnum67ChapterFive:SecretaryofState75ChapterSix:InWaiting103ChapterSeven:Mr.President125ChapterEight:Disappointment:TheSecondTerm155ChapterNine:DecliningYears171iiiAbouttheAuthorBooks

3、intheEminentLivesSeriesOtherBooksbyChristopherHitchensCreditsCoverCopyrightAboutthePublisherEminentLives,briefbiographiesbydistinguishedauthorsoncanonicalfigures,joinsalongtraditioninthislivelyform,fromPlutarch’sLivestoVasari’sLivesofthePainters,Dr.Johnson’sLivesofthePoetstoLyttonSt

4、rachey’sEminentVictorians.Pairinggreatsubjectswithwritersknownfortheirstrongsensibilitiesandsharp,livelypointsofview,theEminentLivesareidealintroductionsdesignedtoappealtothegeneralreader,thestudent,andthescholar.“Topreserveabecomingbrevitywhichexcludeseverythingthatisredundantandno

5、thingthatissignificant,”wroteStrachey:“That,surely,isthefirstdutyofthebiographer.”AcknowledgmentsMyprincipalthanksareduetothelateWilliamApple-tonCoolidgeofTopsfield,Massachusetts.Adirectdescen-dantofEllenWaylesCoolidge,ThomasJefferson’sgranddaughterbyThomasMannandMarthaJeffersonRando

6、lph,heendowedtheAtlanticCrossingscholarshipatBalliolCollege,Oxford,whichfirstbroughtmetotheseUnitedStatesin1970andwhichmakesme,Isuppose,anindirectbeneficiaryofthepeculiarMonticellosystem.InJanuaryandFebruaryof2004,Iwasinvitedtogivefourlec-turesandtwoseminarsonThomasJeffersonattheJames

7、MadisonCollegeofMichiganStateUniversity.TheLeFrakForumandSym-posiumonScience,Reason,andModernDemocracyprovidedmewithanenvironmentthatwasatoncewelcomingandintimidating,andIwantverywarmlytothankitsdirectors,ArthurMelzer,JerryWeinberger,andRichardZinman,forgivingmetheopportunityoftesti

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