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ISBN: | 9781527545199 1527545199 1527544486 9781527544482
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Notes: | Onlione resource; title from digital title page (EBSCO, viewed April 24, 2020).
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Summary: | Revisionism has been the historical vogue for well over two decades concerning Jeffersonian scholarship. This movement has been an attempt to neutralize the avowed ""hagiographical"" scholarship on Jefferson by aiming to offer an all-too-human Thomas Jefferson. The regrettable result has been a depiction, iterated and reiterated uncritically by scholars, of a less-than-human Jefferson, presenting him as an inveterate hypocrite and racist. Thus, Jeffersonian scholarship, as argued here, has become an exercise in useless, fatuous repetition of the same claims that has impeded attempts by serious
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Other form: | Print version: Holowchak, M. Andrew. Rethinking Thomas Jefferson's writings on slavery and race. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020 9781527544482
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