I Tremble for My Country
Subtitle: Thomas Jefferson And the Virginia Gentry (Southern Dissent)
Contributors: Stanley Harrold (Foreword); Randall M. Miller (Foreword)
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: August 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780813030074
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; c 1800 to c 1900; Plantation owners; History; History - U.S; Virginia; History: American; Presidents; United States - Revolutionary War; Gentry; 18th century; Biography; United States
Description: "Hatzenbuehler argues that Jefferson, though celebrated as a nationalist, is best understood as a member of the Virginia gentry who viewed the nation through the lens of his native "country," the Commonwealth of Virginia. Throughout his life, Jefferson was torn between his participation in a privileged order and his periodic dissent from that order's ways. In taking Virginians to task for their failure to improve their Virginia society, he masked his own reluctance to make fundamental changes in his life."--Jacket.