num_pages: 367
description: As controversial and explosive as it is elegant and learned The Long Affair is Conor Cruise O'Brien's examination of Thomas Jefferson as man and icon through the critical lens of the French Revolution. O'Brien offers a provocative analysis of the supreme symbol of American history and political culture and challenges the traditional perceptions of both Jeffersonian history and the Jeffersonian legacy.The book is an attack on America's long affair with Jeffersonian ideology of radical individualism: an ideology that by confusing Jefferson with a secular prophet will destroy the United States from within.Richard Brookhiser New York Times Book Review
language: English
title: The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800
publisher: Pimlico