JEFFERSON'S DEMONS: Portrait of a Restless Mind
Michael Knox Beran, . . Free Press, $25 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-7432-3279-1
While it's hard to imagine that the market needs yet another work on Thomas Jefferson, this thoughtful reflection on our third president's disposition and cast of mind merits company with the best recent works about the man. Beran gives us a Jefferson less rationalistic and intellectual than full of sentiment and tender emotions, a classic 18th-century example of "the man of feeling." Beran's Jefferson finds inspiration not in the philosophy of Locke or Newton but in poetry, beauty and scenery. Beran (
Reviewed on: 07/28/2003
Genre: Nonfiction
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