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ThomasJefferson In Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus, Wilson Jeremiah Moses providesacriticalassessmentofThomasJeffersonandtheJeffersonian influence.ScholarsofAmericanhistoryhavelongdebatedthelegacyof ThomasJefferson.However,Mosesdeviatesfromotherinterpretations by positioning himself within an older, “Federalist” historiographic tradition, offering vigorous and insightful commentary on Jefferson, the man and the myth. Moses specifically focuses on Jefferson’s complexities and contradictions. Measuring Jefferson’s political accomplishments, intellectual contributions, moral character, and other distinguishing traits against contemporaries like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, but also figures like Machiavelli andFredericktheGreat,MosescontendsthatJeffersonfellshortofthe greatness of others. Yet amid his criticism of Jefferson, Moses paints him as a cunning strategist, an impressive intellectual, and a consummate pragmatist who continually reformulated his ideas in a universe that he accurately recognized to be unstable, capricious, and treacherous. Wilson Jeremiah Moses is Professor Emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and the author of six books: The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850–1925 (1978); Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms: Social and Literary Manipulations of a Religious Myth (1982); Alexander Crummell: A Study in Civilization and Discontent (1989); The Wings of Ethiopia: Studies in African-American Life and Letters (1990); Afrotopia: The Roots of African American Popular History (1998);andCreativeConflictinAfricanAmericanThought(2004). 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Thomas Jefferson A Modern Prometheus WILSON JEREMIAH MOSES PennsylvaniaStateUniversity UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108470964 doi:10.1017/9781108557344 ©WilsonJeremiahMoses2019 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. 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LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData names:Moses,WilsonJeremiah,1942–author. title:ThomasJefferson,amodernPrometheus/WilsonJeremiahMoses, PennsylvaniaStateUniversity. description:Cambridge;NewYork,NY:CambridgeUniversityPress,[2019]| Series:CambridgestudiesontheAmericanSouth|Includesindex. identifiers:lccn2018043272|isbn9781108470964 subjects:lcsh:Jefferson,Thomas,1743–1826–Knowledgeandlearning.|Jefferson, Thomas,1743–1826–Influence.|UnitedStates–Intellectuallife–18thcentury.| UnitedStates–Intellectuallife–19thcentury. classification:lcce332.2.m672910|ddc973.4/6092[B]–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2018043272 isbn978-1-108-47096-4Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. InMemoriam,Miriam,1944–2017
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