The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson by Kevin J. Hayes Details
Thomas Jefferson was a collector, an avid reader, a talented writer, a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages, whose marginal annotations include quotations from…
Thomas Jefferson was a collector, an avid reader, a talented writer, a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages, whose marginal annotations include quotations from , Herodotus, and Milton. However, there has never been a literary life for our literary leader.
In "The Road to Monticello," Kevin J. Hayes fills this important gap by presenting a vivid presentation of Jefferson's intellectual development, focusing on books that exert the most profound influence on his writings and thought.
Hayes is historically moving through Jefferson's life, revealing the full range and depth of Jefferson's literary sentiment, from the popular "small books" sold by leading traveling artists, such as "Fortunas History" and "Tom Tomb's History," which stunned him as a child. Isob and Robinson Crusoe, and his involvement with Horace, Oved, and other classical writers of antiquity, and has a deep connection with the bleak verse of Osian, the legendary warrior warrior of the third century.
Based on Jefferson's letters and popular magazines and books, Hayes offers a wealth of new scholarship on colonial America's literary culture, identifies books previously unknown in Jefferson's libraries, and reconstructs Jefferson's research in various fields of knowledge such as law, history and philosophy. , Natural sciences and, most importantly, reveal the ideas that informed the thinking of the first great thinker in America.
Kevin J. Hayes, the world's leading expert on book culture in early America, offers an unprecedented knowledge and sensitivity to Thomas Jefferson's life story in mind ....
The road to Montesilu is a fantastic mental biography. "In what will certainly be the final work on this subject, Hayes offers a thorough examination of the habits of reading and thinking about our third president, the biography of Thomas Jefferson, throughout his life.".
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