Thomas Jefferson’s Enlightenment: Paris 1785 by James C. Thompson
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Thomas Jefferson’s Enlightenment: Paris 1785 by James C. Thompson

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Look Inside! Author: James C. Thompson Cloth Edition ISBN: 978-0-9854863-1-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2013913986 Publication Date: April 20, 2015 Epub Edition ISBN: NA Publication Date: Withdrawn Paperback Edition: ISBN:  978-1-943642-55-7 Library of Congress Control Number: NA Publication Date: December 15, 2015 Cloth Dust Jacket: Color Illustrated: Color Portrait: 6.25 x 9.25 Pages: 300 Images: 40 Paper Illustrated: Color Portrait: 6.0 x 9.0 Pages: 300 Images: 40 In the narrated edition of Thomas Jefferson’s Enlightenment, James Thompson reconstructs the French concept of Progress, how Jefferson became its agent, and what this means.Thompson describes the intellectual environment Jefferson entered in the fall of 1784 then introduces readers to Jefferson’s instructors, the society in which they communed, and the circumstances in which they shared their ideas with Jefferson. In France, Thompson explains, Jefferson entered a world unlike anything he knew in Amer

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