Foto de Stock: A capa pode ser diferente.
Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power
por Garry Wills
- Usado
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0618343989
- ISBN 13
- 9780618343980
- Livreiro
-
Syracuse, New York, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
Houghton Mifflin. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8.3 X 5.8 X 1.0 inches; 256 pages
Sinopse
In "Negro President," the best-selling historian Garry Wills explores a controversial and neglected aspect of Thomas Jefferson's presidency: it was achieved by virtue of slave "representation," and conducted to preserve that advantage. Wills goes far beyond the recent revisionist debate over Jefferson's own slaves and his relationship with Sally Heming to look at the political relationship between the president and slavery. Jefferson won the election of 1800 with Electoral College votes derived from the three-fifths representation of slaves, who could not vote but who were partially counted as citizens. That count was known as "the slave power" granted to southern states, and it made some Federalists call Jefferson the Negro President -- one elected only by the slave count's margin. Probing the heart of Jefferson's presidency, Wills reveals how the might of the slave states was a concern behind Jefferson's most important decisions and policies, including his strategy to expand the nation west. But the president met with resistance: Timothy Pickering, now largely forgotten, was elected to Congress to wage a fight against Jefferson and the institutions that supported him. Wills restores Pickering and his allies' dramatic struggle to our understanding of Jefferson and the creation of the new nation. In "Negro President," Wills offers a bold rethinking of one of American history's greatest icons.
Avaliações
(Entrar ou Criar uma conta primeiro!)
Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Books End Bookshop
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 442653
- Título
- Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power
- Autor
- Garry Wills
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Very Good+
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Very Good+
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0618343989
- ISBN 13
- 9780618343980
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin
- Local de publicação
- Boston
- Esta edição foi publicada pela primeira vez
- 2003-11-01
- Páginas
- 256
Termos da venda
Books End Bookshop
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
Sobre o Vendedor
Books End Bookshop
Membro de Biblio desde 2023
Syracuse, New York
Sobre Books End Bookshop
A local used bookstore with a variety of used and old books.
Glossário
Alguns termos que podem ser usados ??nesta descrição incluem:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
