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PublisherSteerforth Press

ISBN-101586421077

ISBN-139781586421076

eBay Product ID (ePID)48689206

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Book TitleThomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks : Poems of Nation, Family, and Romantic Love Collected by America's Third President

Number of Pages592 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicScrapbooking, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Presidents & Heads of State, United States / General

Publication Year2006

IllustratorYes

GenrePoetry, Biography & Autobiography, History, Crafts & Hobbies

AuthorThomas Jefferson

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.8 in

Item Weight33 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2006-007575

Reviews"Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks is an elegantly produced and judiciously edited anthology that is sure to interest both academics and well as general readers interested in Jefferson and the history and culture of the early American republic. Jonathan Gross has done a stunning job making sense of a vast trove of texts that illuminate much about Jefferson's sensibility, his sense of taste and politics, and indeed his personal life. Each section is introduced informatively, and the appendices will enlighten all sorts of readers. This book provides the materials with which to think about Jefferson in light of popular culture, Romantic thought, and the larger relations between American and British cultures. -- Philip Gould, Professor of English, Brown University "Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott and Burns are among Jefferson's major companions in a previous unrecorded ten-year conversation that will permanently change Jefferson studies. Deeply sensitive to the tensions between the exteriority of neoclassicism and the interiority of romanticism, Jonathan Gross is a masterful editor." -- Jay Fliegelman, author of" Declaring Independence" "Thanks to Jonathan Gross's comprehensive annotations and introduction, the" Scrapbooks" offer even non-specialist readers a variety of fascinating insights into the complexity of Jefferson's inner life." -- Karl Kroeber, Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University "A dramatic glimpse into the mind of Jefferson. In these pages, he emerges as both a casual reader and a political partisan. What did he clip from the newspaper? What poetry stirred him? The cerebral president had a sense of humor and a strikingly sentimental side thatcan be easily gleaned from this fascinating volume." -- Andrew Burstein, author of" Jefferson's Secrets", "A dramatic glimpse into the mind of Jefferson. In these pages, he emerges as both a casual reader and a political partisan. What did he clip from the newspaper? What poetry stirred him? The cerebral president had a sense of humor and a strikingly sentimental side that can be easily gleaned from this fascinating volume." - Andrew Burstein, author of Jefferson's Secrets, "Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott and Burns are among Jefferson's major companions in a previous unrecorded ten-year conversation that will permanently change Jefferson studies. Deeply sensitive to the tensions between the exteriority of neoclassicism and the interiority of romanticism, Jonathan Gross is a masterful editor." - Jay Fliegelman, author of Declaring Independence "Thanks to Jonathan Gross's comprehensive annotations and introduction, the Scrapbooks offer even non-specialist readers a variety of fascinating insights into the complexity of Jefferson's inner life." - Karl Kroeber, Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University. "A dramatic glimpse into the mind of Jefferson. In these pages, he emerges as both a casual reader and a political partisan. What did he clip from the newspaper? What poetry stirred him? The cerebral president had a sense of humor and a strikingly sentimental side that can be easily gleaned from this fascinating volume." - Andrew Burstein, author of Jefferson's Secrets, "Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks is an elegantly produced and judiciously edited anthology that is sure to interest both academics and well as general readers interested in Jefferson and the history and culture of the early American republic. Jonathan Gross has done a stunning job making sense of a vast trove of texts that illuminate much about Jefferson's sensibility, his sense of taste and politics, and indeed his personal life. Each section is introduced informatively, and the appendices will enlighten all sorts of readers. This book provides the materials with which to think about Jefferson in light of popular culture, Romantic thought, and the larger relations between American and British cultures. - Philip Gould, Professor of English, Brown University "Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott and Burns are among Jefferson's major companions in a previous unrecorded ten-year conversation that will permanently change Jefferson studies. Deeply sensitive to the tensions between the exteriority of neoclassicism and the interiority of romanticism, Jonathan Gross is a masterful editor." - Jay Fliegelman, author of Declaring Independence "Thanks to Jonathan Gross's comprehensive annotations and introduction, the Scrapbooks offer even non-specialist readers a variety of fascinating insights into the complexity of Jefferson's inner life." - Karl Kroeber, Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University "A dramatic glimpse into the mind of Jefferson. In these pages, he emerges as both a casual reader and a political partisan. What did he clip from the newspaper? What poetry stirred him? The cerebral president had a sense of humor and a strikingly sentimental side that can be easily gleaned from this fascinating volume." - Andrew Burstein, author of Jefferson's Secrets

SynopsisWhile in office from 1801 to 1809, Thomas Jefferson cut and pasted into homemade scrapbooks hundreds of poems of nation - early odes to the still coalescing republic - family, and romantic love. He gave the books as gifts to his granddaughters and for nearly 200 years it was believed the girls had compiled the collections themselves. No previous biography of Jefferson has drawn on this important resource. In unexpected ways this groundbreaking work will help demystify "the American sphinx." 243 of the poems that captured Jefferson's imagination are published here for the first time, with essays, annotations and photographs that make this historically important and revealing volume a delight to explore. "Thomas Jefferson's Scrapbooks" shows our third president's taste for sentimental verse and abolitionist poems, and will modify his reputation as a strict neo-classicist. It includes a poem by Benjamin Franklin, several odes on the death of Alexander Hamilton, poems by women writers who have not been fully recovered in recent anthologies, and corrects the assumption that newspaper verse did not shape Jefferson's thinking on foreign affairs. Jefferson's interest in young American poets will surprise even his biographers who do not always include his literary tastes while in office in their studies of the man. And numerous anti-Federalist poems will correct the view of Jefferson as a reluctant politician., While in office from 1801-1809, Thomas Jefferson created homemade scrapbooks of hundreds of poems about national pride, family, and romantic love. He gave the books as gifts to his granddaughters and for nearly 200 years it was believed the girls had compiled the collections themselves., The explosion of information technology has led to substantial growth of web-accessible linguistic data in terms of quantity, diversity and complexity. These resources become even more useful when interlinked with each other to generate network effects. The general trend of providing data online is thus accompanied by newly developing methodologies to interconnect linguistic data and metadata . This includes linguistic data collections, general-purpose knowledge bases (e.g., the DBpedia, a machine-readable edition of the Wikipedia), and repositories with specific information about languages, linguistic categories and phenomena. The Linked Data paradigm provides a framework for interoperability and access management, and thereby allows to integrate information from such a diverse set of resources. The contributions assembled in this volume illustrate the band-width of applications of the Linked Data paradigm for representative types of language resources . They cover lexical-semantic resources, annotated corpora, typological databases as well as terminology and metadata repositories. The book includes representative applications from diverse fields, ranging from academic linguistics (e.g., typology and corpus linguistics) over applied linguistics (e.g., lexicography and translation studies) to technical applications (in computational linguistics, Natural Language Processing and information technology). This volume accompanies the Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics 2012 (LDL-2012) in Frankfurt/M., Germany, organized by the Open Linguistics Working Group (OWLG) of the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN). It assembles contributions of the workshop participants and, beyond this, it summarizes initial steps in the formation of a Linked Open Data cloud of linguistic resources, the Linguistic Linked Open Data cloud (LLOD).

LC Classification NumberE332.9.S33 2006